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[119] [120] TajSATS, a joint-venture of the Indian Hotels Company and SATS, provides in-flight catering at Chennai Airport. [121] It also manages the airport lounges. [122] The Taj Madras Flight Kitchen, a joint venture of the Indian Hotels, SATS and Malaysia Airlines which started in 1994, operates restaurants at the airport. [123] [124]
[2] [3] As the new airport was delayed due to land acquisition problems, [2] [4] an expansion plan was unveiled to expand the existing Chennai International Airport in 2018 to increase the terminal area to 160,000 m 2 (1,700,000 sq ft) with a capacity of 35 million passengers. [5] The existing airport is expected to reach saturation by 2035. [6]
India's busiest airports is the list of top fifty busiest commercially operational airports in the country.The tables below contain the busiest airports ranked by the following parameters as per the data published by Airports Authority of India.
Blue Dart Aviation is a cargo airline based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.It serves 7 Indian metro cities with its main base as Chennai International Airport.German courier company Deutsche Post owns a 70% stake in the airline through its subsidiary Blue Dart Express.
A flight information display system (FIDS) is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or monitors in order to display arriving and departing flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport ...
Chennai International Airport is one of the busiest in India. The aviation history of Chennai began in 1910, when Giacomo D'Angelis built the first powered flight in Asia and tested it in Island Grounds. [311] In 1915, Tata Air Mail started an airmail service between Karachi and Madras marking the beginning of civil aviation in India. [312]
Johannesburg Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, for instance, was formerly known as Jan Smuts International Airport, with code FAJS. When the airport was renamed O. R. Tambo International Airport, its ICAO code was updated to FAOR. Some airports have two ICAO codes, usually when an airport is shared by civilian and military users.
The station is the only elevated airport metro station in India. The other airport metro stations in the country such as those in Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and the proposed ones at Bangalore and Hyderabad are underground. [2] The station enables rapid transit connectivity with the airport, making Chennai the second city in India after Delhi to ...