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Chennai International Airport (IATA: MAA, ICAO: VOMM) is an international airport serving the city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in Tirusulam in Chengalpattu district , in the Greater Chennai Metropolitan Area around 21 km (13 mi) southwest of the city centre.
[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]
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]
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.
Coimbatore International Airport (IATA: CJB, ICAO: VOCB) is an international airport and the primary airport serving the Coimbatore Metropolitan Area in Tamil Nadu, India. [5] It is located in the neighborhood of Peelamedu , about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the center of the city.
Status updates April 1998: The then Minister of Civil Aviation , Ananth Kumar , first gave the plan of proposal for the new international airport for Chennai. October 1998: The Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TNIDC) identified a site for the airport 10 km south of Meenambakkam, which will be built in a Build-Own-Operate-and ...
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.
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 ...