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avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

I had heard some time back that VS was more interested in starting services to COK

btw does COK has a market to sustain the European loads ... i do know many people from Kerela stay in US as well ... but strangely i cannot foresee any market for EU carriers

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avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

hmm iam sure the GOI wont give them those rights !!

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News on Tamil Nadu airports:

With the Rs 26 crore extension work at the Tiruchirapalli International Airport now complete, many airlines are lining up to begin operations from the town, says a UNI report.
Air India Express has approached the airport with plans to launch operations on the Tiruchi-Dubai and Tiruchi- Singapore sectors, airport Director S Sreekumar has said. The airline will start operations from March 26, he said.
Kingfisher Airlines has also evinced interest to introduce services to Chennai and other destinations, while Malaysian Airlines had approached AAI last year with plans to operate direct services to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Oman Airways is also keen to launch services to Gulf countries and Air Arabia had carried out market survey in and around Tiruchirappalli, he added.
Sreekumar said the Rs 26 crore project to expand the runway to 8,000 feet from 6,100 feet began in March 2004 and after obtaining certification from the Airport Authority of India this month, the Tiruchirappalli airport could now handle wider-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 737s.
Further extension of the runway to 12,500 feet has been approved by the AAI and would be implemented when the state government acquires the requisite land, he said.

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Touch screen ‘‘ADD Kiosks’’, which facilitate complete downloading of thousands of devotional, classical and film songs, were today launched by a private agency at the domestic air terminal of the Chennai Airport, says a UNI report.
To start with, four such Kiosks were launched at the domestic airport here by Chennai Airports Authority of India Director Dinesh Kumar. These Kiosks are for public use.
Besides devotional, classical and film songs, the public could download monophonic and polyphonic midi ringtones into IPODS, USB-MP3 players and pendrives etc.
"This is the herald of a glorious era for an easy, global distribution of music and movie software and the begining of the end of all forms of piracy," UNI quotes the Director of Giri Trading Agency Private Ltd, T S Ranganathan as saying.
Similar kiosks will be launched in Mumbai and Bangalore Airports and later in other parts of the country.
Encouraged by the huge success of two (anytime digital downloads) ADD Kiosks, which were installed at two of the agency’s outlets in the city, it was decided to launch the fourth kiosks at the airport, he said adding that the inbuilt system was so designed that even a person without knowledge of computers could use it comfortably.
Ranganathan said the touch screen was also made to enable selection and viewing of bill details. After payment, the music of choice would be downloaded into any univerally accepted portable device. For the time being the Kiosks accept the exact amount in Indian currency.
The entire process of selecting the music according to ones choice, making payment and finally transferring the requirements onto a device would require a mere 20 minutes, he said.
He however declined to divulge the cost of each kiosk merely saying each cost a great deal of money. The agency had showrooms and offices at Mumbai, Chennai, Coimbatore, Secunderabad, Kancheepuram and Madurai, he said, says UNI.

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The Kerala Government has decided to acquire 2,000 acres of land for developing an airport at Kannur (Cannanore) in north Kerala, says a UNI report.
In hisweekly cabinet briefing, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said state infrastructure promotion agency KINFRA had been appointed as the nodal body to take the work forward.
Efforts for securing the required central clearances for the project were also progressing well.
Kannur airport, the fourth in Kerala, is planned as a public-private participation project on the model of Cochin International Airport Ltd.

TKMCE · Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 957

btw does COK has a market to sustain the European loads ... i do know many people from Kerela stay in US as well ... but strangely i cannot foresee any market for EU carriers

Have you recently seen the number of institutes mushrooming accross Kerala offering IELTS coaching???

These are not for students, but primarily to nurses who have to get a IELTS min grade before being given a visa for a job in UK and Ireland. Once they get the visa, their family members get a visa automatically.

Nursing is a scarcity profession in UK and Indian nurses have a huge demand there. A large proportion of the nurses are Malayalis. Increasingly they are recruiting in large numbers for Ireland also.

Four years back when I flew QR on LHR DOH TRV, they had a Malayalam movie playing on one of the channels the seat back IFE on LHR DOH leg operated by A330. It was not listed in the inflight magazine - however they played it instead of the chinese option!. Not surprisingly - even then the LHR DOH flight had about 40 pax connecting to the COK and TRV flights. And on the DOH TRV leg needless to say the movie was again Malayalam (no seatback screens - it was a A 320). Unfortunately the movie was the same!!!

Many people in central Kerala are now more familiar with Birmingham and Glasgow rather than CCU and DEL. And things will only improve!

And in a very recent development, UK govt has announed that students going to UK now get a one year extension to their visas to get work experience after their course is over. Earlier they had to return back immediately. This will further increase the traffic to UK since a big percentage of UK students form India are from South India, many of them are Keralites.

After IELTS institutes the next roaring business in Kerala will be "consultancies" for getting students admission abroad. There are already a few but now they will increase - as will the traffic from Kerala to UK!

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The Govt is planning to block about 600 acres for the planned Karaikal airport.

This will take care of traffic to the religious centres at Nagapattinam -- Nagore and the Shrine of Mary at Velankanni.

The consultant says there can be enough traffic for daily flights and to be more precise, 12 flights a day.

COUGAR · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 986 Location: Bangalore

Gulbarga can serve as a nodal airport for a entire catchment area covering the south-eastern Maharashtra to Western Andhra and Northern Karnataka. it is a decent sized industrial town.

As for preparing for 747's: why not? When the civil terminal was being buiult in Pune, they did not buil dit in the north-west quadrant which would have allowed for a bigger apron etc etc bcoz at the time the preparation was for 2 or 3 Dornier flights a day.

The smaller S-W quadrant was selected, and look how short sighted that turned out to be.
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COUGAR · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 986 Location: Bangalore

Point to be remembered was that flight was operated with a 4 sseater Miles merlin!! And as for airports: there are British built 432 airfields that many of us arent even aware of. Many of these are being used as makeshift FCI godowns to store surplus grain! Did you know that Pune itself has as many as 3 airfields? Many places that look like FCI storehouses are actually proper airfields: look carefully and u can see runways with X markings on them!

Neways I dont doubt that traffic exists in Kannur. And an RC-Parsi-Madrassi airline like AI sure manages to milk the Kerala market quite well. So lets have an international airport in Kannur: the more the merrier!
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justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

I feel what we need are more n better facilities at the existing airports plus improved land connectivity to these airports from a wide catchment area...

If we can have more off site check in counters at city stations - a la KL Sentraal or Vienna CAT , with dedicated non stop connection to the airport it would go a long way in solving these problems rather than coming up with a new airport.

But sadly nobody seems to be concetrating on that.

TRV airport used to have some KSRTC (state transport) buses starting from the international terminal going to North Kerala. Not sure if these services are still run. If we could stream line these services, it would help passengers a great deal.

nadarji · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 305

The second railway terminal for Trivandrum will be close to the airport, as will be the new long distance bus stations, but I have not yet seen anything which suggests that the proximity of these will be synergized.

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COUGAR · Member Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 986 Location: Bangalore

Thanx Stealthpilot!

U putthe discussioni n perspective!
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TKMCE · Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 957

If CCJ international traffic has not grown as much as HYD or BLR in the last year it is one simple reason - no foreign airline other than Air Lanka has still been allowed to operate to CCJ. AI and IC it seems are still bent on hanging on to their monopoly somehow.

It iis not that the foreign airlines do not want to operate to CCJ.

UAE (Abudhabi),Qatar, UAE (sharjah) , Kuwait all had inteir latestt bilateral talks formally made a request for their airlines to operate to CCJ , all of which were "noted" by the Indian side.

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Nimish · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject:

ABN397 · Member Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 113 Location: India

A few random musings:
In the late 1970s, there used to be at least two Kerala SRTC buses waiting at Trivandrum airport to connect with the Airbus from Bombay. One went to Ernakulam and the other to Muvattupuzha.
In those days COK was served only by Avros with limited load, so a number of passengers headed for Cochin area had to take the Trivandrum flight.

In other countries, we see airports which are situated quite away from any major city but they serve a number of cities. In Britain a good example is East Midlands airport which was presumably an old RAF base. It is roughly equidistant from several cities like Leicester, Nottingham and Derby and is used by passengers from various cities. There are probably many examples like this in the US.

In India, a comparable example is the "Jolly Grant" airfield which is a few km from Doiwala railway station. It may be called Dehradun airport, but is roughly equidistant from Dehradun, Haridwar and Rishikesh-all of which are prominent tourist destinations. There have been suggestions to call it "Doon Valley Airport" rather than Dehradun airport.

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G-BYGB · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

Stealthpilot,Where does AMD stand interms of the no.of passengers travelling both domestic and international?
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stealthpilot · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2325 Location: BLR, DXB

For AMD (in thousands)

International passengers
Jan 2006 = 62
Jan 2007 = 50
= - 18.5%

Domestic Pax
Jan 2006 = 150
Jan 2007 = 218
= 45.3%

Total (domestic + international)
Jan 2006 = 212
Jan 2007 = 269
= 26.6%

Ill try and share the file with you (any idea how). I have no idea where I got it from, but im assuming it was provided by someone on this site. It might have been sri_bom, not too sure.
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Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) has became the first international airport in India to launch free wireless network, providing Wi-Fi service throughout the domestic and international terminals at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The free Wi-Fi Internet service is provided by Bharti Airtel Ltd, says a UNI report.
While this service is offered free of charge for all passengers carrying Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, a paid service for a bandwidth of 512 kbps and above, will be introduced shortly.
Free Internet kiosks will also be set up at all terminals, with each terminal having at least one kiosk with a minimum of four computers.

G-BYGB · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject:

Stealthpilot, Thank You for the info.
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Aiel · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 927 Location: Bangalore

Intl airlines dodge Indian airports on high user charges

Airport user charges, including landing, parking, terminal navigation and passenger service fee, at Indian airports are nearly 25% higher than similar charges in other international airports, resulting in international airlines dodging Mumbai, Delhi and other metros as stopover points for long haul flights.

Airlines would have to pay 'terminal navigational landing charges' of Rs 989 ($23) for 10,000 kg and Rs 5,951 ($143) for 10,000 kg and above. Landing charges for over 50,000 kg would be Rs 12,400 ($298) + Rs 376 ($9) per every excess 1,000 kg, apart from a service fee of Rs 200 per passenger. These charges are subject to a service tax of 12%. Charges at Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore, all managed by the Airport Authority of India (AAI) at present, are on the higher side.

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Nimish · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject:

9V-SKD · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 75 Location: SIN

Guys, with Tiruchirapalli International Airport having gone through a runway extension, has there been a facelift there too? AIX is having a good load factor for this sector as opposed to Chennai....

After reading Kingfisher is looking into tapping this sector, indian sectors are really heating up...

Any pics of Tiruchirapalli International Airport as i have booked a trip down there in June later this year..
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Small commercial aircraft would soon start flying from Salem airport on Chennai-Bangalore route, according to Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran, says a UNI report.
The flight operations are likely to commence from June or July sauis Maran after discussions with Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel in this regard.
The airfare in the sector will be kept on par with railway ticket rates, Maran said.
The small airport at Kamalapuram near here was not used for commercial purposes as aviation companies felt that the sector was not economically viable. Constructed about 15 years ago, it had been utilised only by flying clubs and VIPs who visited the area.

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CSIA BECOMES FIRST INDIAN AIRPORT TO INSTALL SITA’S AIRPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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