Proposal for expansion of Tiruchi airport runway at a cost of ₹350 crore sent to AAI for approval

A connection for enlargement of the Tiruchi planetary airdrome runway from 8,000 feet to 12,500 feet astatine a outgo of ₹350 crore has been sent to Airports Authority of India for readying approval, Airport Director, Tiruchi, S.S. Raju said connected Monday.

The enactment for the operation of a compound partition for the onshore acquired for runway enlargement volition beryllium awarded by adjacent month.

Highlighting the developmental works astatine the Tiruchi airdrome portion speaking astatine the Republic Day celebration, Mr. Raju said the caller Air Traffic Control Tower and Technical Block nether operation astatine a outgo of ₹55 crore would beryllium brought into usage by year-end.

Five much rider boarding bridges had been installed astatine the airdrome astatine a outgo of ₹14.8 crore with investigating and commissioning successful progress. With this, the full fig of rider boarding bridges would summation to 10. The further 1 mega watt crushed star PV works would beryllium installed by year-end astatine a outgo of ₹5 crore. Once commissioned, the airport’s full star capableness would beryllium 2.45 mega watt.

The rider maturation astatine the airdrome is expected to interaction 3.2 cardinal by 2029-2030. A full fig of 640 caller rider baggage trolleys had been provided for rider facilitation. 

Mr. Raju said the airdrome achieved a 10 % summation successful planetary cargo tonnage scaling from a monthly mean of 540 metric tonnes to astir 590 metric tonnes. The maturation underscored the airport’s expanding relation arsenic a captious logistics hub for cardinal Tamil Nadu and surrounding regions. 

The airdrome was simultaneously advancing plans to found a full-fledged home cargo terminal to code the increasing request from the determination trading community.  The airport’s planetary courier facility, which remained non-operational since the notification successful 2022, was present nether process of being activated nether a Public - Private Partnership (PPP) exemplary done an Operations and Maintenance contract.