{"id":4381,"date":"2010-12-02T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2010-12-02T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:56:27","slug":"status-of-bhubaneswar-airport-upgradation-civil-aviation-ministers-answer-to-a-rajya-sabha-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/4381","title":{"rendered":"Status of Bhubaneswar airport upgradation: Civil aviation minister&#8217;s answer to a Rajya Sabha question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/airport-expansion-work-to-be-completed-by-2011-end\/416936\/\" target=\"_self\">a report in Business Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The on-going developmental work at the Biju Patnaik airport in  Bhubaneswar, which aims to upgrade the airport as an International  airport, is likely to be completed by November, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion work, being implemented by the Airport Authority of  India (AAI), envisages construction of new domestic terminal building  complex with all modern amenities, which includes two aerobridges at a  cost of Rs 145.54 crore.<\/p>\n<p>On completion of these works, the final capacity of the Bhubaneswar  airport would be 970 domestic passengers and 348 international  passengers during peak hours as per IMG norms, says Union minister of  state for civil aviation, Praful Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Funds earmarked for construction of new terminal building and  extension of apron was Rs 160.45 crore. Out of this, Rs 24.59 crore has  been spent by September, this year, Patel said in response to a query  from Rajya Sabha MP, Renubala Pradhan.<\/p>\n<p>The average number of passengers handled by the Bhubaneswar airport  daily varies from 2500 to 3150. The average daily passengers handled by  the airport was 2637 in April, 2506 in May, 3150 in June, 2657 in July,  2848 in August and 2517 in September this year.<\/p>\n<p>Patel said, the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL)  operates daily flights in Delhi-Bhubaneswar-Delhi and  Mumbai-Raipur-Bhubanswar-Mumabi sectors and five flights per week in  Chennai-Bhubaneswar-Chennai sector.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Jet Airways operates daily flights in  Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata sector, while Kingfisher Airlines operates  Mumbai-Bhubaneswar-Mumbai and Bangalore-Bhubaneswar-Bangalore and  Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata sector (twice daily) flights.<\/p>\n<p>Indigo operates Delhi-Bhubaneswar-Delhi (twice daily) and Hyderabad-Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad flights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from a report in Business Standard. The on-going developmental work at the Biju Patnaik airport in Bhubaneswar, which aims to upgrade the airport as an International airport, is likely to be completed by November, 2011. The expansion work, being implemented by the Airport Authority of India (AAI), envisages construction of new domestic terminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,549,545,552,548,547,551,541,48,784,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbsr-bangalore","category-bbsr-chennai","category-bbsr-delhi","category-bbsr-hyderabad","category-bbsr-kolkata","category-bbsr-mumbai","category-bbsr-raipur","category-bhubaneswar-airport","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-bringing-international-connectivity","category-district-khordha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}