Chennai International Airport
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| Chennai International Airport Meenambakkam Airport ெசன்ைன சர்வதேச விமான நிைலயம் |
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| IATA: MAA – ICAO: VOMM | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Government of India | ||
| Operator | Airports Authority of India | ||
| Serves | Chennai Metropolitan Area | ||
| Location | Tirusulam, Chennai | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 52 ft / 16 m | ||
| Coordinates | 12°59′40″N 080°10′50″E / 12.99444°N 80.18056°E | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 07/25 | 12,001 | 3,658 | Asphalt |
| 12/30 | 6,708 | 2,045 | Asphalt/Concrete |
| Statistics (2007-08) | |||
| Passenger movements | 10,659,754 | ||
| Airfreight movements in tonnes | 270,608 | ||
| Aircraft movements | 115,865 | ||
| Source: DAFIF[1][2] | |||
Chennai International Airport (IATA: MAA, ICAO: VOMM) (Tamil: சென்னை சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம்) is located in Tirusulam, 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Chennai, India. It is the one of the largest international gateway into the country, third busiest airport in India after Mumbai and Delhi, also the main air hub for Tamil Nadu, handling around 12 million passengers in 2007 and serving more than 25 different airlines. It is also a hub for Jet Airways, Kingfisher Red, Air India and Paramount Airways. It is also the second-largest cargo hub in the country, after Mumbai.
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[edit] History
Chennai had one of the first airports in India, and was the final destination of Air India's first flight from Bombay (Mumbai) via Belgaum in 1954. The first passenger terminal was built at the northeast side of the airfield, which lies in the suburb of Meenambakkam due to which it was referred to as Meenambakkam Airport. A new terminal complex was subsequently built at Tirusulam, further south near Pallavaram to which, passenger operations were shifted. The old terminal building is now used as a cargo terminal and is the base for the Indian courier company Blue Dart.
[edit] Structure
Chennai International Airport consists of three terminals: The old terminal at Meenambakkam is used for cargo, while the new passenger terminal complex near Pallavaram is used for passenger operations. The passenger terminal complex consists of the domestic and international terminals interconnected by a link building, which houses administrative offices and a restaurant. Although the complex is one continuous structure, it was built incrementally, with the Kamaraj and Anna terminals being added in 1988 to the pre-existing Meenambakkam terminal.
The first part to be built was the international terminal which had two aerobridges (jetways), followed by the domestic terminal with three aerobridges. After the completion of the domestic terminal, the old terminal at Meenambakkam was used exclusively for cargo. Recently the international terminal was extended further south by adding a new block which includes three aerobridges. At present, the new international block is used for departures while the older building is used for arrivals.
The airport has the honour of being the first ISO 9000 certified airport in the country, which it received in 2001.
[edit] Facts and Figures
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Currently, Chennai airport handles about 25 aircraft movements every hour, which will be saturated by the year 2014-15. However, peak hour traffic handling capability will be exhausted much earlier than that. Anna International Terminal handled 3,410,253 passengers in 2007-08 and has the capacity of handling 3M passengers annually, Already it has surpassed the passenger handling capacity. Similarly, Kamaraj Domestic Terminal, which handled 7,249,501 passengers in 2007-08, has the capacity to handle 6 million passengers annually. Here again the terminal demand far exceeds the capacity. In all Chennai airport handled a capacity of 10,659,754 passengers in 2007 - 08. The airport handled cargo of a total of 270,608 tonnes in 2007 - 08.
[edit] Modernisation and Expansion
The Chennai Airport has been slated for modernisation and expansion. The works are to be carried out by the Airports Authority of India and include the creation of a parallel runway, taxiways, aprons and new passenger terminal buildings. The expansion works will involve the acquisition of land in nearby areas. The expansion of the existing airport would be taken up at Manapakkam, Kolapakkam, Gerugambakkam and Tharapakkam in Sriperumbudur taluk after a resolution to this effect was adopted by the government.
The government would provide suitable compensation to 947 households in these areas and also rehabilitation to them.[citation needed] The rehabilitation of the households would be done in the first phase of the expansion work itself.
The modernisation and restructuring is expected to cost around Rs 2,350 crore, of which the cost of construction of the runway, taxiway and apron would be around Rs 1,100 crore, while the cost of construction of the terminal building, cargo building, car park and face uplift would be Rs 1,250 crore.[citation needed]
As per the modernisation plan, the secondary runway will be built over the Adyar river by means of a bridge. The runway will extend across Adyar river. A bridge will be built over the river to accommodate the runway and a taxiway. This makes Chennai Airport, the only international airport in India to have a runway across the river. In Mumbai only an end of the runway is over Mithi river. The secondary runway extension will cost around Rs 430 crore and will be completed in 2010. [3]
The proposed Chennai Metro Rail Project will connect the Chennai International Airport to various parts of the City. Tentatively, the project is programmed for completion in the financial year 2013-2014.[4]
[edit] Proposed New Passenger Terminals
The current development projects include construction of a new domestic terminal and expansion of the surrent International terminal.The design is a collaborative effort of four firms. While Hargreaves Associates has done the landscape design Frederic Schwartz firm is responsible for the design of buildings on the landside of the runway. The Creative Group would be the local architects for the project. The proposed design will be connected with the existing terminal design elements. It was earlier reported that the new terminal buildings will have a handling capacity of 10 million passengers and when integrated with existing terminals will provide for a handling capacity of 23 million passengers a year. The new terminal buildings are expected to have an area of about 1, 40,000 sq. m. with 140 check-in counters and 60 immigration counters and the two runways would be interconnected by a network of taxiways. The Terminal complex will have a Flyover Travelator connecting the Domestic Terminal and International Terminal for a distance of about 1 km. It will have an elevated road on the top and a tube below which will have two Walkalators[5]
The design details of the runways are handled by the Airports Authority of India, while architecture firms are limited to designing buildings on the landside of the runway. The present proposal is parallel to the existing runway. The entire design as being organised around “two lush sustainable gardens” and the wing-like roofs helps collect rainwater and become part of the garden.[6]
[edit] Proposed New Integrated Cargo Complex
An integrated cargo complex will be built in the cargo complex of the Chennai Airport. The complex would be constructed, at a cost of Rs. 145 crore, in 15 months. While the ground floor would measure 21,000 square metres, the first floor would be built on 12,100 square metres. The new building would be used exclusively for import activities. Once the civil works were completed, the Automatic Storage and Retrieval System would be installed. It would cost Rs. 75 crore.[7]
[edit] Facts
- In 2007-08, the existing airport handled 1,15,865 aircraft movements and its capacity to handle aircraft movements is likely to be saturated by 2014-15.
- The existing airport can handle about 25 aircraft movement per hour and even after expansion, the airport will get saturated by 2014-15 and the Greenfield Airport has to be ready by then. The same logic has been applied in Mumbai, where the Navi Mumbai airport is to be ready by the time, the existing one gets saturated around the same time.
- The AAI is of the view that a logical thing would be to construct a new domestic terminal and allow simultaneous use of the cross runways there. These things can take us through till the year 2015.
[edit] New Greenfield Airport
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has announced the setting up of a new greenfield airport at Sriperumbudur and Tiruvallur taluks, apart from the expansion of the existing airport at Tirusulam.
The greenfield airport would come up on 3,486.66 acres (14.1100 km2), expansion of Chennai airport would be done on 1,069.99 acres (4.3301 km2) at an estimated cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
Initially the work for the greenfield airports was to be entrusted to the Airports Authority of India (AAI). However, the greenfield airport, coming up at Sriperumbudur near Chennai will be developed under a public-private partnership. The Prime Minister’s Committee has also asked for a pre-feasibility report for this airport.
The greenfield airport will have four runways. Eyeing Chennai airport, leading global airport developers are forging alliances with Indian players for bidding for the project. The companies interested in the project include Singapore Changi Airport, Macquarie Group, GMR Group, GVK Industries Ltd. and Tata Group.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has clarified that “there is no role for the AAI in developing the greenfield airport near Chennai”.
The new airport is expected to be completed within 28 months of work commencement.
[edit] Transport links
The airport is situated on the busy Grand Southern Trunk Road (National Highway 45) and is also served by the Airport station (Tirusulam) on the Suburban railway network. The proposed Metro Rail System (Chennai Metro) will also connect the Airport with other important places in Chennai.
[edit] Airlines and Destinations
Domestic flights operate from the Kamaraj Domestic Terminal (KDT), while the Anna International Terminal (AIT) is for international flights. The old terminal at Meenambakkam is used for Cargo Operations.
[edit] Kamaraj Terminal - Domestic Flights
| Airlines | Destinations| |
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| Air India Regional | Delhi, Visakhapatnam |
| Indian Airlines | Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Madurai, Mumbai, Port Blair, Trichy, Trivandrum |
| IndiGo Airlines | Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune |
| Jet Airways | Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Madurai, Mumbai, Pune, Trivandrum, Visakhapatnam |
| JetLite | Delhi, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam |
| Kingfisher Airlines | Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calicut, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Port Blair, Pune, Tiruchirapally, Trivandrum, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam |
| Paramount Airways | Ahmedabad, Agartala, Bangalore, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Madurai, Pune, Trichy, Trivandrum |
| SpiceJet | Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune |
[edit] Anna Terminal - International Flights
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Arabia | Sharjah |
| Air India | Dammam |
| Air India Express | Abu Dhabi, Colombo, Dubai, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Singapore, Trichy, Trivandrum |
| Air Mauritius | Mauritius |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi |
| Gulf Air | Bahrain |
| Indian Airlines | Calicut, Cochin, Colombo, Dubai, Goa, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Mumbai, Muscat, Sharjah, Singapore, Trichy, Trivandrum |
| Jet Airways | Brussels, Colombo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, New York-JFK, Singapore |
| JetLite | Colombo |
| Kingfisher Airlines | Colombo |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Malaysia Airlines | Kuala Lumpur |
| Oman Air | Muscat |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh |
| Singapore Airlines | Singapore |
| Sri Lankan Airlines | Colombo |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai |
| Tiger Airways | Singapore |
[edit] Cargo Terminal
[edit] MRO Hangar Facility
| Airlines |
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| Air India |
| Indian Airlines |
| Jet Airways |
| Kingfisher Red |
| Paramount Airways |
| SpiceJet |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Airport information for VOMM at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for MAA at Great Circle Mapper. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- ^ Chennai Airport to have runway across Adyar river
- ^ Chennai Metro Rail System to connect International Airport
- ^ airport to get a ‘Flyover Travelator’
- ^ Proposed New Chennai Airport - Plan
- ^ Proposed New Chennai Airport Cargo Complex - Plan
[edit] External links
- Chennai International Airport
- MAP for proposed Greenfield Airport & Consolidated Update About Chennai Airport
- New Chennai Airport Design-Schwartzarch
- Accident history for MAA at Aviation Safety Network
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