Attention NRIs- Amritsar
Rajasansi Airport is starting 56 take-off
from 3 flights
AMRITSAR, May 09, 2005
Devinder Sharma
NRI press
One flight stop few years back, then three flight
stop, now starting 56 take off- very soon. It is becoming
a hub of international punjabi NRIs. It is estimate
that average of 8 to 9 million punjabi NRIs travel
to Punjab every year
- Air India starting its Amritsar/Birmingham/Toronto/Amritsar
service on May 15
- Singapore Airline, which landed here four
months ago, has been going full, three days a week
- Malaysia Airlines, British Airways, Phuket Airlines,
Tajikistan Airlines, Uzbek Airways and Air-India
are also lining up a landing here
- Cargo flights are planning to double their flights
from three to six in a week
- Airport Authority of India decided to develop
28,000 sq metres of land for core airport operations.
The new terminal is already towering over the complex
and the cargo apparatus is preparing to receive
over 50 flights per week from the current 25.
Airport Authority of India promises to throw open
the revamped terminal building this October.
Right now passengers are facing great inconvenience-
No Air Condition in arrival and departure halls, shabby
canteens, lack of conveyor belts, trolleys and shopping
arcades paint a gloomy picture of the ‘international’
airport.
The passengers and their relatives have to face a
lot of inconvenience as there are no electronic flight
information display boards. The airport is sans proper
seating facilities or wash-rooms for those who come
to receive NRIs.
Ajanala bypass chowk to Rajasansi airport -there
is no provision of street lights on either side of
the road.
