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Even 4 months aft inauguration of the caller terminal astatine Thoothukudi airport, passengers are inactive required to usage the aged terminal entranceway for introduction and exit. As a result, passengers travelling to oregon from Tirunelveli and different regions on the way are compelled to wage toll fees astatine Vagaikulam toll plaza.
The caller terminal astatine Thoothukudi airdrome inaugurated successful July 2025, continues to witnesser a dependable summation successful rider traffic, contempt having connectivity to lone 2 destinations- Chennai and Bengaluru. In the months of August and September, the home airdrome recorded a 54.8% and 53.3% emergence respectively, comparing the corresponding play past year.
This indicates that travellers from confederate districts peculiarly from Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli districts are extensively utilizing the home terminal for convenient entree to Chennai and Bengaluru.
However, presently the passengers person to participate done the aged terminal gate, located aft the Vagaikulam toll plaza, erstwhile approaching from Tirunelveli. Meanwhile, the entranceway to the caller terminal, located earlier the toll plaza, has remained closed for months and is present blocked with metallic sheets. Passengers consciousness that opening of this gross would prevention them from unnecessary toll charges.
Mari, a taxi operator from Tirunelveli said, “For the airport, the toll interest is ₹80 and for the instrumentality travel it is ₹45, if completed wrong 24 hours. If the caller gross is opened, it would greatly payment taxi drivers, particularly erstwhile we marque aggregate trips a day.”
Antony, a nonmigratory of Valliyoor, pointed retired that contempt the caller terminal being functional, passengers are inactive forced to wage toll charges. “Earlier we had nary enactment but paying the toll. But now, adjacent aft the caller terminal’s inauguration, the concern remains the same, though some gates are fewer metres apart” helium said.
Speaking connected the issue, J. R. Anoop, Director of Thoothukudi Airport told The Hindu that, the caller terminal’s entranceway includes some introduction and exit access, but it has been closed owed to objections from National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
He added that the way volition beryllium opened aft discussions with Thoothukudi territory medication and NHAI are completed.
