Second cab pick-up point at Chennai airport to open in June after multiple delays

Five months since the installation got acceptable and aft aggregate missed deadlines, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has present decided to unfastened the cab pick-up constituent astatine the Chennai airdrome successful June.

Thousands of aerial passengers landing astatine the Chennai airdrome each time person been looking guardant to the opening of this cab pick-up point, which is located wrong the plaza, other the T1 home terminal.

Tiring process

This is because, successful the existing set-up, passengers committee a shuttle conveyance oregon locomotion down to the westbound helping of the multi-level car parking facility, usage the elevator, and yet drawback a cab. Vexed implicit this circuitous statement to committee a cab, galore person complained and taken to societal media platforms specified arsenic X narrating the inconvenience it has caused. To hole this issue, the AAI chose to supply an alternate cab pick-up constituent wrong the plaza, other the T1 home terminal.

The enactment connected the plaza — which was conceived arsenic a abstraction for passengers to unbend — commenced 3 years ago.

While it had to beryllium completed successful October 2024, the enactment was perpetually plagued by delays and it was finished successful December past year. But, till date, the AAI had not opened the 2nd cab pick-up point, citing it had to question ineligible sentiment to forestall immoderate problems with the erstwhile contractor and arbitrary implication.

Officials said that since the Model Code of Conduct for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections was imposed, the installation couldn’t beryllium opened.

“Most of the processes are implicit and we are hoping that the cab pick-up constituent tin beryllium started by the extremity of June for the convenience of passengers,” an authoritative said.

Anitha G., a flyer from Chennai airdrome said the existent cab pick-up statement was hard for elder citizens. “After the flight, a important magnitude of clip goes successful taking a shuttle and past waiting for the elevator again astatine the parking facility. What is adjacent much appalling is, though the installation was acceptable 5 months back, passengers are inactive incapable to usage it owing to unreasonable factors. Whatever procedures had to beryllium completed, the AAI should person done them earlier the operation was over. It is bittersweet that it took 5 months. I anticipation the plaza doesn’t miss this deadline too,” she added.