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As portion of the ongoing expansion, the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) volition get a caller Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower.
The caller ATC operation volition regenerate the existing 1 which has been successful cognition since the airdrome was commissioned successful May 2008.
In this regard, the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has issued a tender.
“The existent terminal is astir 18 years aged and needs to beryllium upgraded, galore instrumentality and systems person to beryllium updated to conscionable today’s requirements. Also the fig of Air Traffic Movements has gone up importantly implicit the years and to conscionable each these demands, we, on with our stakeholders, decided that a caller ATC should beryllium commissioned,” an BIAL authoritative told The Hindu.
The authoritative said that it was yet to beryllium decided whether the caller ATC would travel up successful a caller determination oregon astatine the contiguous one.
“If it is decided that it volition beryllium acceptable up astatine the contiguous location, past the ATC volition beryllium demolished and a caller 1 volition beryllium constructed. If that is the lawsuit past a impermanent ATC would beryllium constructed to negociate the aerial traffic. However, each this is inactive successful the preliminary signifier and that is wherefore we person issued an RFI,” the authoritative added.
The ATC is managed by the Airports Authority of India. The KIA is the 3rd largest airdrome successful India and the busiest airdrome successful southbound India. In the archetypal 9 months successful 2025, the airdrome handled 32.4 cardinal passengers. Several enlargement projects person been planned for the airdrome which see the operation of the 2nd signifier of Terminal 2 and a 3rd terminal.
