Bangalore International Airport Limited

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Bangalore International Airport VOBG 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 30km 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. There is a proposal that this airport shall be named after the founder of Bangalore "Nadaprabhu Sri.Kempe Gowda".

Contents 1 Construction 2 Airport Specifications 2.1 Terminal 2.2 Runway 2.3 Miscellaneous 2.4 Retail and Duty Free 2.5 Food & Beverage 2.6 Flight Catering 3 Competition With Hyderabad Airport 4 Airlines that will serve BIAL 4.1 Domestic 4.2 International 4.3 Cargo Airlines 5 Destinations 6 External links

Construction

BIAL is working on a redesign of the Bangalore International Airport project. BIAL 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, though construction is moving extremely slowly.

As of August 2006, 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 2006.

The Indian Government has recently approved measures to enable the new Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) to make changes in the project design in order to cater for 8.4 million passengers by 2010, against an earlier target of 2020. The initial forecast was for 41,000 aircraft movements per year in 2010, while the latest forecast has risen to 106,000 movements per year, forcing a redesign by merging the first and second phases of construction for 2010 completion.

Airport Specifications

Terminal

Layout: The passenger terminal is proposed as a single, fully air-conditioned, two-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: 35

Gates: 8-9

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

Length: 4000 meters

Width: 45 meters

Width plus light paved shoulders: 60 m

Orientation: 09/27

ICAO reference code: 4E

Miscellaneous

Cost: Rs 1,930.29 crore

Retail and Duty Free

Shoppers' Stop-The Nuance Group

Food & Beverage

HMSHost Corporation

Flight Catering

1. LSG-Sky Chefs
2. Taj-SATS

Competition With Hyderabad Airport

With the boom in the skies, both Bangalore and Hyderabad are racing to try and be the next 'hub' for south India. Hyderabad has been given clearance for a new airport and construction has started. The builders are the GMR Group.

Airlines that will serve BIAL

Domestic

1. Air Deccan (Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Bellary, Calicut, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hampi, Hubli, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Vizag)
2. Air India
3. Air Sahara (Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune)
4. Go Air (Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai)
5. Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Tiruvandrum)
6. IndiGo Airlines (Delhi, Pune)
7. Jet Airways (Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Trivandrum)
8. Kingfisher Airlines (Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Goa, Guwahati, Hubli, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Puttaparthi, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Tiruchirapalli, Varanasi)
9. Paramount Airways (Chennai, Hyderabad, Madurai)
10. SpiceJet (Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune)

International

1. Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
2. Air India (Chicago-O'Hare, Dubai, Frankfurt, London-Heathrow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Jeddah, Riyadh, Kuwait City)
3. Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
4. British Airways (London-Heathrow)
5. Emirates (Dubai)
6. Gulf Air (Muscat, Bahrain)
7. Indian Airlines (Bahrain, Bangkok, Male, Muscat, Sharjah, Singapore)
8. Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
9. Malaysian Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
10. Thai Airways (Bangkok)
11. Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
12. SriLankan Airlines (Colombo)

Cargo Airlines

1. Air France Cargo (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
2. Alitalia (Rome)
3. Blue Dart Aviation (Chennai)
4. Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)
5. Gulf Air (Bahrain)
6. Jet Airways
7. Lufthansa Cargo (Frankfurt)
8. Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
9. Singapore Airlines Cargo (Singapore)
10. SriLankan Cargo (Colombo)
11. Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
12. Transmile Air Services (Kuala Lumpur)

Destinations

See List of Destinations to/from all Karnataka Airports

External links

• Bangalore International Airport Limited