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'Bangalore International Airport' is a 4,050 acre international airport that is being built to serve the city of Bangalore, India. The airport is located in ''Devanahalli'', which is 30 km from the city. Construction of the airport began in July 2005, after a decade long postponement. It is expected to be completed and operational by April 2, 2008. It will then take all the commercial flights that are currently operating out of the HAL Airport. The Airport will be named as "Bangalore International Airport". With the boom in the skies, both Bangalore and Hyderabad are racing to become the next 'hub' for South India with a new international airport being constructed at Hyderabad too.

Contents

Construction

Airport Specifications

Terminal

Runway

Miscellaneous

Retail and Duty Free

Food & Beverage

Flight Catering

Airlines and Destinations (Expected to Transfer from existing airport)

Domestic

International

External links

References

Construction

The New Airport was originally planned to accommodate 3.5 million passengers a year, but this has now been redesigned to handle 11 million passengers. The redesign will see an increase in the size of the terminal, number of aircraft stands, new taxiway layouts and supporting infrastructure. However, the redesign will be incorporated into the present project schedule as BIAL is committed to opening the new Bangalore International Airport in April 2008.
A plan is also being processed for a direct Rail service from Bangalore Cantonment Railway Station to the Basement Rail terminal at the new International Airport. Access on the National Highway is being widenend to a six lane expressway, with a 3 feet boundary wall, construction is moving ahead.
As of June 2007, a brand new expressway is expected to connect the International Airport to the City's Ring Road. The Expressway will begin at Hennur on the Outer Ring Road. This is expected to be a tolled road. Land Acquisition for the road is expected to be complete by December 2007 and the road would be readied in 18 months since then.

Airport Specifications

Terminal

Layout: The passenger terminal is proposed as a single, fully air-conditioned, Four-level building capable of accommodating international and domestic operations. The basement houses the retail storage, rest areas and services.
It will cover 71,000 square meters.
Capacity: 11 million people per annum
Aircraft Movements: 27 per hour
Check-in Counters: 54
Gates: 16
Aero-bridges: 8, including one double arm aerobridge
Aircraft stands: 42
Terminal parking: In the first phase of development, a car park for 2,000 cars in front of the terminal building at the ground level will be developed for the convenience of passengers and visitors to the airport.

Runway

The airport will have one runway when it commences operations in April 2008. The runway will be able to accommodate all types of aircraft including the Airbus A380. There are plans to build a second runway when the annual traffic of the airport reaches 18 million passengers per annum which is currently estimated to be around 2013-2014.
Length: 4000 meters
Width: 45 meters
Width plus light paved shoulders: 60 m
Orientation: 09/27
ICAO

Miscellaneous

Cost: Rs 1,930.29 crore

Retail and Duty Free

The Travel Retail concessions were won in an International Tender by the consortium of Shopper's Stop-Nuance Group. Shopper's Stop, part of the K.Raheja Group, is one of India's leading Retailers with presence in more than 20 cities.The Group also operates the Crossword Book stores and the Hypercity Hypermart. The Nuance Group is the world's largest Travel Retail Operator in size and operates more than 150 outlets all over the world. This marks a new era in Airport Retail at Indian Airports. The new Airport will have one some very interesting Retail concepts among its other counterparts, thereby engaging the Indian and International travellers.

Food & Beverage

The F&B Tenders were won by HMSHost Corporation which operates across all the continents with more than 300 outlets worldwide.Cafe Coffee Day, India's largest coffee chain will operate a Cafe and a Restaurant at the new Airport. The F&B outlets at the airport would be world-class and offer to its passengers some of the most famous delicacies from Bangalore, Karnataka, India and all over the world.

Flight Catering

# LSG-Sky Chefs
# Taj-SATS

Airlines and Destinations (Expected to Transfer from existing airport)

Domestic

# Air Deccan (Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Bellary, Calicut, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hampi, Hubli, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Vizag)
# Air Sahara (Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai, Pune)
# Go Air (Delhi, Kochi, Mumbai)
# Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram)
# IndiGo Airlines (Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata)
# Jet Airways (Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kochi, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram)
# Kingfisher Airlines (Agartala, Agatti, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Goa, Guwahati, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Puttaparthi, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Tiruchirapalli, Varanasi)
# Paramount Airways (Chennai, Hyderabad, Madurai, Vishakapatnam)
# SpiceJet (Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad)

International

# Air Asia (Kuala Lumpur) (From September)
# Air India (Chicago-O'Hare, Dubai, Frankfurt, London-Heathrow, New York-JFK)
# Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
# Air Sahara (Colombo)
# British Airways (London-Heathrow)
# Emirates (Dubai)
# Gulf Air (Bahrain, Muscat)
# Indian Airlines (Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Muscat, Sharjah, Singapore) ]
# Jazeera Airways (Dubai, Kuwait) [From December 2007]
# Jet Airways (Brussels, New York-JFK, Singapore) [From November 15th]
# Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
# Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
# Nok Air (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
# Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
# Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
# Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo)
# Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)

External links

★ Bangalore International Airport Limited

★ Praja Bangalore's BIAL Project tracking page

References