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Hey Guys,
Seeing the amount of traffic increasing manifold from Punjab, many international and national carriers have commenced their services to Amritsar(ATQ). The latest air is that Lufthansa is planning to launch services to ATQ.
Briefing reporters on the resumption of Lufthansa's direct Kolkata-Frankfurt thrice-a-week service after a gap of 35 years, the airline's executive vice-president (Marketing and Sales) Thierry Antinori said in India Lufthansa was targeting 20,000 outbound passengers per week.
The airline, which made Kolkata its sixth destination as against four in China, is working out details for adding another destination in the country. Asked to be specific, he said Amritsar was the likely destination.
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What I think is that, along with developing ATQ, another airport A380 compatible should be built in Ludhiana, the insustrial capital of the state. As of now, anyone who has to tavel aborad has to first reach Amritsar or Delhi to take their flights.
I wish to know your opinions regarding the same.

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Making an airport A380 compatible is quite expensive... If ATQ can manage funds then not a big deal. Else ATQ IMO should have a bigger and a better terminal and expand runways to accomodate the T7s and A343s at the most (if they already do then pls excuse me).


I dont see much business at the present moment from ATQ except the North-Indian immigrants. But still currently as most of them travel from DEL, traffic is concentrated there.


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the_380 wrote:

Making an airport A380 compatible is quite expensive... If ATQ can manage funds then not a big deal. Else ATQ IMO should have a bigger and a better terminal and expand runways to accomodate the T7s and A343s at the most (if they already do then pls excuse me).


I dont see much business at the present moment from ATQ except the North-Indian immigrants. But still currently as most of them travel from DEL, traffic is concentrated there.


Just my twocents



ATQ is handling 777's for a long time (AI & SQ), no A340's. But what I actually mean is that an Airport should be developed in Ludhiana, because it has the potential to become a major hub for cargo airlines. Moreover, good amount of business class travellers are there. There is no problem of money over there, Punjabi's are known for their lavish lifestyle.
Ludhiana has a small airport in Sahnewal, the hometown of Dharmendra. It has a single runway 30-12, dimensions being 1583x50 (M). Sometime back, I heard that the airforce base in Hawara, near Ludhiana will make way for a new international airport, but haven't heard of any latest development regarding the same.

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Good to know that ATQ has good potential for Cargo. In that case first of all the Cargo facilities must be developed.

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You got me wrong. I'm talking about Ludhiana as the hub for cargo airlines. It is the industrial capital of Punjab. It's home to industries like Avon Cycles, Kangaro(stationery) and many more...

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tsk911 wrote:

You got me wrong. I'm talking about Ludhiana as the hub for cargo airlines. It is the industrial capital of Punjab. It's home to industries like Avon Cycles, Kangaro(stationery) and many more...

Ok sir... in that case Punjab di govt start working (sorry my punjabi is not good)
Lets hope if business is considerably good then the airport should be upgraded and atleast this would reduce the ticket costs of pax based in Punjab going to USA and Europe.

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I still can't get over the idea of a medium size airport both at ATQ and Ludhiana, won't it be better if they build a good one at just one place.  This becomes all the more important in the context that both are relatively close to DEL.  My personal preference would be to improve but not expand ATQ, and build a good one at Ludhiana considering it bang in center of Punjab and close to Chandigarh, Ambala and Jammu.
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A think Its was stupidity to build an airport at Amritsar as it is near the border and not in the center related to any Punjabi City.Ludhiana is the best choice to build an airport.If you look at the map you will notice that it is in the center of Punjab.
Chandigarh is also not a bad choice as well.

But for me Chandigarh or Ludhiana is the best. to cover the distance to Amritsar and Delhi almost take same time for us.So why not to choose Delhi where we get beter infrastructure(Compared to Amritsar only) and more airlines

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ATQ is already capable of supporting widebody ops. IC used to operate AB3's thre, back in the days when widebodies did domestic milk-runs. And AI operated their rustbuckets from ATQ to SVO and BHX. So the runway and basic infrastructure is already there. The terminal would need to be remodelled which is not too difficult for AAI which is flush with funds these days.


ATQ is not just for Punjab: that would be too narrow focus. Lets look at the catchment area. The catchement area for ATQ would include Jammu and Western Punjab, while Chandigarh could be developed as a catchment for Eastern Punjab and Himachal, which by itself would not need support for widebody ops. The few international/domestic routes out of IXC could be comfortably serviced with A320 type eqpt.


Ludhiana: While Ludhina is a large city, the airport there can barely support a Fokker now. Upgradng that even for an A320 could take some time. I would suggest that regular commecial ops be started there first with ATR type eqpt while the airport and runway is improved.



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What I personally think is that, Hawara, the air force base near Ludhiana should be used to develop a commercial airport, capable of serving all kinds of widebodies.
And to my reply to 787, having an airport near the border doesn't makes a sense for not developing it further. Even, Lahore is near the border, so should Pakistan stop it's development?
In a few years time, Amritsar will generate enormous traffic, thanks to the development in real estate and other sectors. And I don't think travelling from Amritsar to Ludhiana will be of a problem to the Punajbi's out there. Although, I still advocate that Hawara should be developed for Civil Aviation purposes.

-- Edited by tsk911 at 23:19, 2006-12-14

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tsk911 wrote:


What I personally think is that, Hawara, the air force base near Ludhiana should be used to develop a commercial airport, capable of serving all kinds of widebodies.
And to my reply to 787, having an airport near the border doesn't makes a sense for not developing it further. Even, Lahore is near the border, so should Pakistan stop it's development?
In a few years time, Amritsar will generate enormous traffic, thanks to the development in real estate and other sectors. And I don't think travelling from Amritsar to Ludhiana will be of a problem to the Punajbi's out there. Although, I still advocate that Hawara should be developed for Civil Aviation purposes.

-- Edited by tsk911 at 23:19, 2006-12-14



If you see PP speech to the CII meet in Oct, he mentions recieving a proposal to build an Greenfield Intl airport at Halwara.


http://ciionline.org/events/2804/images/coi_conference/airport_oct.pdf



-- Edited by tayara mechanici at 03:58, 2006-12-15

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Thanks for the information. Lets see if they seriously work on this.

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