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The first phase of Terminal 2, built at a cost of ₹ 5,000 crore (US$570 million), is 255,000 square metres (2,740,000 sq ft) and will help augment the capacity of the airport by an additional 25 million passengers per annum. [94] The second phase of Terminal 2 is planned to increase capacity by an additional 20 million passengers per annum. [95]
Sl. no. Location : ICAO : IATA : Airport name International airports: 1: Bangalore: VOBL: BLR: Kempegowda International Airport: 2: Mangalore: VOML: IXE: Mangaluru ...
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.
Mangalore Airport was the first airport in Karnataka to have two runways [21] and the first to have a runway made of concrete. [22] The second runway (06/24), 2,450 m (8,038 ft) long, was opened on 10 May 2006. A Jet Airways flight from Bangalore with 95 passengers on board was the first to land on this runway. [23]
The 1990s saw new growth for Calcutta Airport, as the Indian aviation industry saw the arrival of new airlines such as Jet Airways and Air Sahara. A new domestic terminal named Terminal 2 was opened in 1995 making the international one Terminal 1, and the airport was renamed in honour of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Karnataka governor T. N. Chaturvedi inaugurated the airport in November 2006, [7] and Air Deccan launched flights to Bangalore and Goa the following month. [8] As part of the Indian government's UDAN scheme, TruJet began service to Hyderabad in September 2017. [9] In October 2022, Alliance Air started flying to Hyderabad and Bangalore. [10]
In large airports, there are different sets of FIDS for each terminal or even each major airline. FIDS are used to inform passengers of boarding gates, departure/arrival times, destinations, notifications of flight delays/flight cancellations, and partner airlines, et al. Each line on an FIDS indicates a different flight number accompanied by:
The Allies employed the airfield during the Second World War, and by 1946 commercial flights had begun. Activity at the airport grew gradually over the next several decades until the 1990s, when it started to increase rapidly in parallel to Bangalore's economic expansion. In response, the airport underwent a series of expansions and upgrades.