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The 11.6&nbsp;km [[Hyderabad Elevated Expressways|PV Narasimha Rao Expressway]], constructed at an elevated level from [[Mehdipatnam]] to [[Rajendranagar]] along with an [[underpass]] and [[trumpet interchange]] for providing dedicated high speed travel to the [[Hyderabad International Airport|airport]], is the longest [[Overpass|flyover]] in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=Expressway%20off-limits%20to%20the%20aam%20aadmi?&artid=RTgEA9tzokE=&type= |title=Expressway off-limits to the aam aadmi? |work=The New Indian Express |date=19 October 2009 |accessdate=7 August 2010}}{{dead link|date=October 2011}}</ref> There are three wide roads leading to the new airport from the city and modern [[Taxicab|taxis]] and buses can shuttle passengers between the city and the airport. The [[Outer Ring Road (Hyderabad)|Nehru Outer Ring Road]] serves as an [[controlled-access highway|expressway]] between [[Gachibowli]] and [[Shamshabad]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Another-ORR-stretch-to-be-ready-soon/articleshow/7079683.cms|title=Another ORR stretch to be ready soon|work=Times of india |accessdate=11 December 2010|date=11 December 2010}}</ref>
The 11.6&nbsp;km [[Hyderabad Elevated Expressways|PV Narasimha Rao Expressway]], constructed at an elevated level from [[Mehdipatnam]] to [[Rajendranagar]] along with an [[underpass]] and [[trumpet interchange]] for providing dedicated high speed travel to the [[Hyderabad International Airport|airport]], is the longest [[Overpass|flyover]] in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=Expressway%20off-limits%20to%20the%20aam%20aadmi?&artid=RTgEA9tzokE=&type= |title=Expressway off-limits to the aam aadmi? |work=The New Indian Express |date=19 October 2009 |accessdate=7 August 2010}}{{dead link|date=October 2011}}</ref> There are three wide roads leading to the new airport from the city and modern [[Taxicab|taxis]] and buses can shuttle passengers between the city and the airport. The [[Outer Ring Road (Hyderabad)|Nehru Outer Ring Road]] serves as an [[controlled-access highway|expressway]] between [[Gachibowli]] and [[Shamshabad]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Another-ORR-stretch-to-be-ready-soon/articleshow/7079683.cms|title=Another ORR stretch to be ready soon|work=Times of india |accessdate=11 December 2010|date=11 December 2010}}</ref>


===Runways===
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has two runways which are {{convert|4260|m|ft|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|3707|m|ft|abbr=on}} long equipped to operate any type of aircraft in commercial service.


==Hospitality==
==Hospitality==

Revision as of 13:46, 16 April 2013

For other uses, see Hyderabad Airport (disambiguation).

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd.
Operator
ServesHyderabad
LocationShamshabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Hub for
Elevation AMSL2,024 ft / 617 m
Websitewww.hyderabad.aero
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
09L/27L 13,976 4,260 Asphalt
09R/27R 12,467 3,800 Asphalt
Statistics (Apr 2011 – Mar 2012)
Passenger movements8,444,431
Aircraft movements99,013
Cargo tonnage78099
Source: AAI[2][3][4]

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (IATA: HYD, ICAO: VOHS) also known as Hyderabad International Airport, is an international airport near Shamshabad, about 22 km (14 mi) south of downtown Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

The airport is named after former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. It replaced the former international airport of the city, Begumpet Airport. Commercial flight operations began at 12:01 am on 23 March 2008. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is the second public-private partnership venture in the Indian airports, the first being the Cochin International Airport. For the financial year 2010–11, it was the sixth busiest airport in the country in terms of international and overall passenger traffic.[5]

Hyderabad international airport has been named amongst the world's top five in the annual Airport Service Quality (ASQ) passenger survey along with the ones at Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing.[6] In 2010, Hyderabad airport was ranked among the top airports of the world in the airport services quality (ASQ) by the global body, Airports Council International (ACI). It serves as a hub for SpiceJet, Lufthansa Cargo and Blue Dart Aviation and also a focus city for Air India, Jet Airways, and JetLite.

Development

Design and construction began in September 2005 and the airport was opened in March 2008.[7]

An Air India A320 parked at the airport
Remote aircraft parking stands

The airport project is a public-private joint venture between GMR Group, Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad and both Government of Andhra Pradesh and Airports Authority of India (AAI). GMR Group holds 63% of the equity, MAHB 11%, while the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Airports Authority of India each hold 13%.

It is being developed in three phases, and when completed will provide infrastructure for 40 million passengers annually.[8] The airport is expected to be the largest in terms of area and will provide world-class facilities. After the first phase of development, the airport will accommodate 10 million passengers a year.[8] The total cost of the project is INR 24.7 Billion (US$560 million).[9] The airport is being built on an area of 5,400 acres (2,200 ha). The airport was designed by the UK engineering design firm Arup, which also designed Dubai Terminal 3 and Beijing Terminal 3.[10]

First phase

In the first phase of development, the 162,000 m2 (1,740,000 sq ft) Terminal 1, with the capacity to handle 15 million passengers per annum has been constructed. Terminal 1 has 18 contact and 36 remote stands for aircraft parking. Other buildings, including the air traffic control tower, Technical Building, cargo hangars (100,000 tonnes capacity), maintenance hangars, utilities under a combined area of 49,500 m2 (533,000 sq ft) have also been developed. A 1800 car parking lot in front of Terminal 1 is operational for the convenience of passengers and visitors to the airport. A hotel has also been constructed in this phase.

Air Traffic Control Tower

The ATC Tower is 72 m (236 ft) tall and has a column-free perimeter to give uninterrupted views of the airfield.[11]

Second phase

In the second phase of the airport development, Terminal 1 will be expanded to an area of 300,000 m2 (3,200,000 sq ft) to cater to the growing demand. Post expansion, the terminal building will have 30 stands for aircraft parking. The low cost terminal will also be expanded to its full capacity of 18 million passengers per annum.

A second runway, needed before commencement of Terminal 2, was constructed by February 2012. An increase in established facilities such as hotels, offices, cargo and maintenance facilities will be undertaken. The total developed area at the end of this phase will be approximately 520,000 m2 (5,600,000 sq ft).

Final phase

The airport will reach its full maturity after the third phase. An additional floor area of 440,000 m2 (4,700,000 sq ft) will be developed bringing the total built-up area to 960,000 m2 (10,300,000 sq ft).

The ultimate master plan provides for a capacity of 40 million passengers per annum[10] with the accompanying air and ground facilities. Further acquisition of land to the north and south will allow expansion of a third and fourth runway on demand.

Cargo terminal

The state-of-the-art cargo terminal at the airport has implemented a concept of an Integrated Cargo Facility housing both domestic and international facilities under one roof. The Air Cargo Complex has a built-in area of 14,330 m2 (154,200 sq ft) . The Air Cargo Complex is a modular building with a capacity to handle cargo throughput of 100,000 MT annually. The Air Cargo has dedicated cargo apron facilities both for handling regular and freighter operations.[12]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Air ArabiaSharjah
Air IndiaAhmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Dammam, Delhi, Dubai, Goa, Jeddah, Kolkata, Kuwait, Mumbai, Muscat, Pune, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Vishakapatnam, Varanasi
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow
Cathay PacificHong Kong[13]
EmiratesDubai
Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi
FlydubaiDubai
IndiGoAhmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Dubai, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Thiruvananthapuram, Visakhapatnam
Jet AirwaysCoimbatore, Delhi, Kochi, Mumbai, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam
JetKonnectBangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Lucknow, Madurai , Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Raipur, Rajahmundry, Tirupati, Vadodara, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam
Malaysia AirlinesKuala Lumpur
Oman AirMuscat
Qatar AirwaysDoha
SaudiaDammam, Jeddah, Riyadh
SilkAirSingapore
SpiceJetAgartala, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Port Blair, Pune, Rajahmundry, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam
Thai Airways InternationalBangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Tiger AirwaysSingapore

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Blue Dart AviationAhmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai
Cathay Pacific CargoBangalore, Delhi, Hong Kong[14]
Lufthansa CargoFrankfurt, Mumbai, Sharjah
Singapore Airlines CargoSingapore
Thai Cargo
Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Frankfurt

Connectivity

The Airport is located approximately 30 km (19 mi) from Begumpet.[15]

Pushpak Bus Routes

Car rental and taxi services are available at the airport. In addition, the Pushpak Airport liner, is a facility provided by APSRTC to reach the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. These buses run at 30 minutes interval to/from several points in the city and the airport between 03:00 hours and 00:00 hours, and at a half an hour frequency. APSRTC also provides non air-conditioned bus services between various points in the city and the airport at much lower fares.[16]

Other alternate modes of road access, still in planning phase with State government include:

  • Metro rail extension from Falaknuma to Shamshabad
  • Dedicated airport train from Secunderabad to airport 40 km (25 mi) stretch with travel time of around 25 minutes

The 11.6 km PV Narasimha Rao Expressway, constructed at an elevated level from Mehdipatnam to Rajendranagar along with an underpass and trumpet interchange for providing dedicated high speed travel to the airport, is the longest flyover in India.[17] There are three wide roads leading to the new airport from the city and modern taxis and buses can shuttle passengers between the city and the airport. The Nehru Outer Ring Road serves as an expressway between Gachibowli and Shamshabad.[18]


Runways

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has two runways which are 4,260 m (13,980 ft) long and 3,707 m (12,162 ft) long equipped to operate any type of aircraft in commercial service.

Hospitality

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) plans to develop a hotel corridor called Regal Broadway to cater to an estimated five million visitors to the city travelling through the international airport in 2008.

The Regal Broadway Project is at a nascent stage and plans are still under development. According to initial plans, the project was to be located 150-acre (0.61 km2) in Shamshabad, but reports suggest the entire project may be relocated since environment and development guidelines in the area do not permit commercial complexes.

The Novotel Hyderabad Airport Hotel was opened in October 2008[19] with 305 rooms and suites, featuring WiFi, executive amenities, restaurants, two bars, pool and meeting rooms. The hotel also has a spa and fitness centres.

Fixed base operators

Ground handling services

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL) has awarded ground handling concessions to two ground handlers – Al-SATs Consortium and Menzies-Bobba.[20]

Flight catering

LSG Sky Chefs and Sky Gourmet have been awarded concessions to construct, operate, maintain, manage and develop the in-flight catering facilities. They have been allocated area measuring 2.5 acres (10,000 m2) each to operate and maintain the necessary facilities at the airport.[21]

Fuelling

Aircraft fuelling

GHIAL has constructed and commissioned an Aviation Fuel Farm and Hydrant Fuelling System with State of the Art Facilities including modern automated systems within the airport area. The airport is the first in the country to introduce the 'Open Access' system allowing the air carriers to choose suppliers of their choice.[22]

Vehicle fuelling

The vehicle fuelling facilities at the airside is being operated by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). The facility provides fuel to all the ground handling vehicles at the airside. BPCL has also planned to start a vehicle fuelling station on the landside with a 24 hour convenience store.[22]

Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) has leased Air India space for setting up a MRO facility at the airport. The existing operations at the defunct Begumpet airport are expected to be transferred to the new MRO facility. GHIAL will invest and build connecting taxiway, apron and engine run-up bay as common facilities for the Indian Airlines' MRO. The facility in Begumpet airport handles the initial maintenance checks (including C-Checks on IA's Airbus-320 aircraft). The IA will render similar service to its aircraft as well as those belonging to Air India at the new facility.

MAS-GMR Aerospace Engineering Company Ltd., located in the 250 acre GMR Aerospace Park SEZ, offers base maintenance services starting with C-checks for narrow bodied aircraft like Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 including the B-737 Classic and B-737 next generation aircraft saving precious foreign exchange and aircraft downtime for most airline companies.

Sabena Flight Academy

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd signed an MoU with Sabena Flight Academy to establish an Aviation Academy at the new airport.

Over €80 million will be invested over the next three years covering infrastructure including accommodation for more than 200 trainees per year, six full flight simulators, cabin trainers and engineering tooling.[23]

Accolades

Year Award Category Results Ref
2009 Center for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Award Best Airport Environmental Performance of the Year Won [24]
Airport Service Quality Awards
by Airports Council International		 Best Airport Worldwide 5th [25]
Best Airport in Asia-Pacific
Best Airport by Size (5–15 million passenger) Won [26]
2010 Won [27]
2011 3rd [28]

Incidents and accidents

  • On the airport's opening morning, a SpiceJet Airlines flight landed 50 minutes ahead of schedule, making it the first flight to ever land at the new airport. This took many of the officials aback, most of whom were waiting for the scheduled "first flight" from Lufthansa, which was set to be the first flight to land at the new airport. SpiceJet flight SG 397 from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad was scheduled to land at 12.50 am, but it touched down at 12.01 am because "the pilot decided to take off early". Airport officials were puzzled by SpiceJet's explanation that their pilots had decided to take off early though the management had agreed to fly in late. The American expat captain of SG 397 affirms that he departed from Ahmedabad at the exact time dictated by dispatch and has the flight schedule to prove it. Scheduled arrival was 12:20 am. Actual arrival was 12:15 am, only 5 minutes early. Again, these times were set by dispatch the previous day. But it was Lufthansa that arrived from Frankfurt at 12.19 am, six minutes ahead of its scheduled time, which got the official welcome as it was planned to be given to the German plane, though it was the third, as another SpiceJet plane had landed 5 minutes after flight 397.[29]
  • Also on the airport's opening morning, KLM Flight 873 inbound from Amsterdam was supposed to land at HIA, but reports indicated that KLM was unaware of the airport change, and the pilots, confused, decided to divert to New Delhi. After they were denied landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, they diverted to Mumbai, where they made a successful landing[30] However, KLM denies this, saying that instead, the diversion was due to the weather being below minimum limits for landing. This is due to an observant reader of an article about the diversion who contacted Hyderabad ATC and then realised that it was the weather.[31]
  • The airport validated its capability to land Airbus A380 aircraft when on 16 June 2011, a Dubai bound Emirates Airlines flight, EK-413 Airbus A-380 was diverted to Hyderabad as an Australian citizen required emergency medical assistance. The aircraft landed at around 4.20 am and left at 6.30 am after the passenger was shifted.[32] On 23 October 2011, a Dubai bound Emirates Airlines flight from Bangkok was forced into landing under emergency conditions following technical problems. All 410 passengers on board the aircraft were disembarked safely.[33]

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