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A expansive invited with h2o cannons was fixed to the archetypal Air India flight, which landed successfully arsenic portion of the commercialized validation of the archetypal flight astatine Bhogapuram International Airport successful Vizianagaram district, astir 50 km from Visakhapatnam city, connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) morning.
Union Minister K. Rammohan Naidu, accompanied by Vizianagaram MP Kalisetti Appala Naidu and others, came connected the flight, which landed astatine the recently constructed airdrome astir 11.10 a.m.
Collector S. Ramsundar Reddy, Joint Collector Sedhu Madhavan, respective nationalist representatives and executives of GMR Group welcomed the Minister and different VIPs connected the runway. They expressed happiness implicit the palmy completion of the archetypal way tally connected the 3.8 km agelong runway constructed astatine the airport.
Mr. Rammohan Naidu said that it was a historical time successful the aviation assemblage portion hoping that the caller airdrome would spur the economical enactment successful the full North Andhra region. He exuded assurance that GMR radical would adhere to the deadline of June 30, 2026, acceptable for the full-fledged operations of the airport. He said that the authorities was taking steps to widen the roads successful each routes with an purpose to guarantee hassle-free question for to the airdrome for aerial passengers coming from Visakhapatnam metropolis and different places successful the region.
GMR Visakhapatnam International Airport Limited (GVIAL) is constructing a greenfield airdrome connected 2,200 acres of onshore with an estimated outgo of ₹4,725 crores. The airport, projected successful 2014, is each acceptable to instrumentality disconnected wrong six months with decks cleared for its operations. GMR Group Deputy Managing Director I. Prabhakara Rao said that 96% works were completed, and peculiar attraction is being taken to conscionable the expectations of the government.
According to him, arsenic galore arsenic 200 planes tin beryllium operated from the caller airport. As galore arsenic 18 planes tin beryllium parked during nighttime. The radical claimed that it would guarantee hassle-free services for the travellers by arranging 18 migration counters for the passengers.
The radical anticipates that 33% of travellers from Visakhapatnam territory and remaining 67% from North Andhra, Odisha, Chattisgarh and different places. The airdrome tin grip 20,000 tonnes of cargo each year. A large cargo terminal is besides being constructed to export bulk drugs, agriculture, marine and different products.
