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Night landing facility at Tirupati from August 15


Hyderabad, July 7 Come Independence day, the temple town of Tirupati will have night landing facility to accommodate more air crafts, according to Airports Authority of India (AAI) Senior Manager S Raman.


Talking to reporters after inaugurating a morning flight of Air Deccan here today, Mr Raman said the new facility would be operational from August 15 this year.


As the air traffic increased, it would provide necessary components for air crafts to land during night.


The new facility could accommodate wide bodied Jet Air Crafts inlcuding the Air Bus-320.


After operating Avros five days a week for almost two decades, Indian formerly Indian Airlines would increase its number of flights to Tirupati.


He said another budget airliner Spice Jet had shown interest to operate its service to Tirupati. The flight from Chennai would be upto New Delhi and the airlines was working with the Airport Authority of India(AAI) to commence its operations in the second half of the year.



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Thats good to hear one more airport to accomodate night-flights



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How many Parking Bays Available.


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how much traffic does Tirupati gets to warrant night landing or is this for emergency situations?  Have more worthy airports been bypassed?


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Aseem wrote:
how much traffic does Tirupati gets to warrant night landing or is this for emergency situations?  Have more worthy airports been bypassed?
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Tirupati gets tons of traffic - currently all via ground transport (bus/train). If they manage to promote the flights to/from/via Tirupathi - I have no doubts that it can be a good opportunity. And night landing is great, I'm sure Indigo will be glad to get permission to park a few of it's 320s at TIR

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IndiGo or not i have a feeling VM will want to park some of his a/c there. He took his first A320 to pray there

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He took All this Aircraft via Tirupati.


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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/07/11/stories/2006071101861900.htm


More pvt airlines eyeing Tirupati
K.V. Kurmanath


Airport being upgraded 


Tirupati , July 10


Low-cost carrier Air Deccan will soon be followed by other private airlines in including Tirupati in their route maps.


Lured by a large number of devotees thronging the most popular religious destination in the country, new generation airlines such as Kingfisher, Jagson and SpiceJet, are firming up plans to launch services to the temple town.


Officials of Tirupati (Renigunta) Airport told Business Line that SpiceJet might start late night operations to the town. Tentatively, the service would connect Delhi and Tirupati via Hyderabad. Kingfisher too was in touch with the officials. "They are likely to start operations in October or November, provided they get the required permissions. They may start off with 70-seater ATRs," officials said.


Another private player Jagson Airlines might launch services from Bangalore. They would, in all probability, operate a 17-seater aircraft.


Airport spruce-up



With more and more airlines getting ready to launch services, the officials have begun efforts to strengthen the airport to handle bigger aircraft and increased traffic.


Mr S. Raman, Senior Manager of the airport, said a Rs 21-crore project had been launched to strengthen the runway to allow four-engined jet planes to operate. The pavement Classification Number, which denoted pavement strength, would be increased to 61 from the present 40.


The officials were also preparing a plan to increase the runway length to 9,000 ft from 7,500 ft.


To facilitate night operations, the AAI (Airports Authority of India) was putting in hilltop lighting on 12 hills. While lights on three hills were already there, installation of solar-powered systems on the remaining nine would be completed by July 31. "This will be operational by August 15. The lighting will help pilots recognise the airport, while negotiating the row of hills in the area," the official said.


Besides, a visual circling guidance facility at a cost of Rs 40 lakh too would be installed to help the pilots locate the runway.


 


 


 


 


 



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