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[fuwad]

Jet Airways Konnect to begin new flights from Sep 3

New Delhi, Aug 20 (PTI)

The new all economy no-frills Jet Airways Konnect will launch its services from September on a number of key domestic routes earlier served by its parent airline Jet Airways.

The new Jet Airways Konnect flights will be launched from September 3 and are expected to further enhance the airline's domestic connectivity from metros -- Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata to smaller cities.

It will increase its services on Kolkata-Delhi/ Bagdogra/Guwahati-Kolkata routes from September 3, while new flights will be launched on Delhi-Pune, Guwahati-Delhi and Delhi-Chennai from September 15.

Flights will be launched on Chennai-Delhi, Delhi- Guwahati-Bagdogra-Delhi, Delhi-Bangalore, Banglore-Mumbai and Mumbai-Delhi sectors on September 16 and Mumbai-Aurangabad/ Chandigarh/Kolkata Mumbai sectors from September 17, a statement from the airline said.

source : PTI

[Illusionist]

Nice updates fuwad. you have singlehandedly kept this thread alive.. keep it up

[fuwad]

New Integrated Terminal Building Aurangabad Airport.

First pic of the interior of new terminal after it became operational in March 2009.



photo from picasa web album, copyright Ketan.

[Illusionist]

Nice update fuwad. this airport looks big and a bit like dial.
but what looks ugly is those exposed airducts, hot water pipes, chilled water pipes and raw roof. i hope this is still under construction and hope they are working on drop ceiling to hide all that ugliness.

[IchimaruGin1]

there seems to be an overkill of airports in Maharashtra....

[mooktada]

Originally Posted by Illusionist

Nice update fuwad. this airport looks big and a bit like dial.
but what looks ugly is those exposed airducts, hot water pipes, chilled water pipes and raw roof. i hope this is still under construction and hope they are working on drop ceiling to hide all that ugliness.

that's an industrial post modernist look that is very much in fashion all over the world. A lot of the stores and even apartments in NYC using this styling element.

IMO The only thing ugly in those pictures are those scraggly plants and the very chinsy made of thali steel check in counters.

[avishar]

That terminal looks as if its half done.Those look good at all,and i dont think the are part of an "industrial look".The check-in counters and the AC ducts also look flimsy.

[fuwad]

Old press release by blue star:

Blue Star bags order for airconditioning Aurangabad Airport.

Place: Mumbai.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has awarded central airconditioning major, Blue Star, an order for the total airconditioning works and Building Management System at the new integrated terminal building of Aurangabad airport valued at Rs 8.1 crore.

Blue Star's superior project management skills and impressive track-record of on-time completion helped it win this prestigious order. The Company has also bagged many other airport projects at Ahemdabad, Trivandrum, Mangalore, Nagpur, Jaipur, Amritsar, Khajuraho, Varanasi, Madurai, Dehradun, Pune, in addition to Aurangabad- together valued at Rs 74 crores.

At Aurangabad airport, the approximate area to be airconditioned is 1.9 lakh sq. ft. Blue Star's scope of work includes supply and installation of airconditioning systems of 1200TR comprising water cooled screw chillers, pumps, cooling towers, air handling units, ducting, piping and grilles, amongst others.

[fuwad]

Mock drill at Aurangabad airport.

Aurangabad, Sept 23 (PTI) To check its preparedness in the event of a terror attack, the city police today conducted a mock drill at the international airport here which lasted for two hours.

Police, fire brigade and district administration personnel were pressed into service to 'rescue' passengers of an airbus which was 'hijacked' by four 'terrorists', police said.

After two hours, the situation was soon brought under 'control' and the security force freed the 'hostages', they said.

Senior officials from police and administration, including CP Shrikant Savarkar and Commissioner of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation Purushottam Bhapkar, were present during the drill.

source : PTI

[fuwad]

Special Haj flights

Mumbai, Oct 16 (PTI) Air India would operate 137 special flights from October 20 to facilitate travel of Haj pilgrims to Jeddah and Medina.

The national carrier would additionally operate 117 hub- and-spoke flights to connect passengers to special Haj flights of Saudi Arabian Airlines and NAS Air, a release from Air India said here.

The AI would fly around 40,000 Haj pilgrims on Boeing 747-400, Airbus-310 and Airbus 330 and would also operate 30 extra section flights to meet the requirement.

While the flights to Jeddah and Medina would be operated from Kolkata, Nagpur, Guwahati, Jaipur, Indore, Aurangabad and Srinagar, the hub-and-spoke flights would be from Patna, Ranchi, Varanasi and Mangalore.

[fuwad]

14 flights diverted from Mumbai due to poor visibility

Dec 8 (PTI) Poor visibility at Mumbai airport due to smog forced authorities today to divert 14 flights scheduled to land here to neighbouring stations.

"As visibility dropped to below 1,500 meters due to smog at the airport, 14 flights have been diverted to other stations," a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson told PTI here today.

The flights were diverted to Pune, Aurangabad, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Bangalore, the spokesperson said.

The main runway of the Mumbai Airport remains closed every Tuesday between 12 noon and 6 pm due to re-construction work which is scheduled to be completed by March next year.

However, the shortened runway is kept open for flight operations during these hours, but only small aircraft can take-off or land from this runway.

Of the 14 flights diverted to other stations, five were of Kingfisher Airlines and nine of Jet Airways.

[fuwad]

RAJYA SABHA

Non-Metro Airports

Development works by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has been completed at various non-metro airports and in many the work is scheduled to be completed by 2009-10. This information was given by the Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel in Rajya Sabha today.

The details of development works completed by AAI at various non-metro airports are as follows: Vizag (Andhra pradesh)- construction of new integrated terminal building; Guwahati (Assam)- extension of runway; Mangalore (Karnataka)- construction of new integrated terminal Building; Agati(Lakshadweep)- construction of new integrated terminal building; Raipur (Madhya Pradesh)- construction of new apron; Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh)- construction of new apron at; Aurangabad (Maharashtra) - construction of new integrated terminal building; Nagpur (Maharashtra)- construction of new international arrival hall and expansion of existing terminal building; Amritsar (Punjab)- extension of runway, expansion of apron and terminal building, construction of new terminal building; Jaipur (Rajasthan)- construction of new international terminal complex; Udaipur (Rajasthan)- construction of new terminal building complex and new apron; Madurai (Tamil Nadu)- extension of new apron; Trichy (Tamil Nadu)- construction of new integrated terminal building; Agartala (Tripura)- expansion of apron, strengthening of existing runway and construction of technical block; Agra (Uttar Pradesh)- renovation of terminal building; Dehradun (Uttarakhand)- construction of new terminal building, apron and strengthening and extension of runway.
Press Information Bureau (press release)

[achemsRaZor]

I dont think anyone was going for any Industrial Post-Modernist feel here. The material is too flimsy and the look is haphazard - no method seems apparant, if indeed they were aiming for that look. Its accidental if at all. Its just half finished half baked effort IMO. Shame really. It could have looked so nice. Maybe they will still drop a ceiling and hide those innards after BlueStar is done with the Airconditioning contract

What is truly ugly though is this obsession our babus all over the country have with potted plants . Area needs decoration? - bring out the freaking pots - ridiculous!

[fuwad]

Heavy fog in North India hits air, rail traffic

CNN-IBN Sat, Jan 02, 2010

Dense fog over a major part of North India from late Fridaty night has hit road, train and air traffic.

In Delhi 15 flights have been delayed as runway visibility at the Delhi Airport dropped to less than 125 meters while two Jet Airways flights from Delhi to Mumbai stand cancelled.

Due to dense fog and runway visibility falling to nearly 100 metre the CAT III B instrument landing could not be used due to fault in the RVR instrument located on the main runway as well the new runway at the Dwarka side.

Around nine international flights have been diverted to Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.

The flights to Delhi that have been diverted to other cities due to heavy fog include CA 947 China TO Delhi. EY 218 Eithad TO Delhi and QR 232 Qatar To Delhi.

All the morning flights have been delayed by over two-three hours causing inconvenience to passengers.

The flights delayed include 9W801 Delhi To Bangalore, 9W2251 Delhi To Chennai, NW2213 Delhi To Raipur, 9W2257 Delhi To Hyderabad, 9W2228 Indore To Bhopal and S26171 Delhi To Aurangabad.

[fuwad]

Delhi and Mumbai airports get additional CISF men

New Delhi, Jan 3 (PTI) In an effort to enhance security at Delhi and Mumbai airports, the government has sanctioned more than 800 additional security personnel.

Currently, both the airports have a combined strength of around 4,300 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) men.

While the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport will have 289 new posts in the ranks of constables, sub-inspectors and inspectors, the Mumbai International Airport will have 518 additional CISF personnel.

The new strength will also be used to secure the vicinity of these airports as anti-sabotage measures and in view of heightened terror threats.

The strength of the security men drawn from the CISF has also been enhanced at the Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power project in Haryana (126 posts) and Ratnagiri Gas and Power Limited in Maharashtra (231 posts).

The Aurangabad airport has also been granted additional 55 posts of security men.

[fuwad]

Mumbai, Jan 27 (PTI) GoAir has approached the State Government to start its services.

A presentation was given by the airlines officials today to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan here on starting new flight services to the airports.

"They presented the routes to the Government and their study on occupancy of passengers on particular routes," Aviation Secretary Sudhir Thakre said.

The Government also suggested them some routes like Mumbai-Hyderabad-Nanded, Delhi-Hyderabad-Nanded-Mumbai, Amritsar-Delhi-Hyderabad-Nanded, Mumbai-Aurangabad-Latur-Nanded and Mumbai-Solapur-Nanded-Hyderabad, Thakre said.

"We have asked them to check feasibility on the routes as the flight capacity is more," the official said.

Representatives from Reliance Industries were also present for the meeting, as the Nanded and Latur airports are under their authority, the official said.

Airports at Baramati, Osmanabad and Yavatmal are also looked after by the Reliance, he added.

[fuwad]

New Integrated Terminal Building Aurangabad Airport.

Hajj Pilgrims at Aurangabad Airport. Pic of the interior of new terminal Oct 2009.



copyright :Thomasgillam (http://www.travelpod.com/travel-phot....jpg/tpod.html)

[fuwad]

AAI plans to levy development fee at non-metro airports
22 Apr 2010, 0320 hrs IST,Nirbhay Kumar,ET Bureau

NEW DELHI: Flying from smaller cities, such as Aurangabad, Srinagar and Dehradun, is likely to become costlier with the state-owned operator,
Airports Authority of India (AAI), proposing to levy a user development fee. AAI has sought the civil aviation ministry’s approval to levy user development fee or UDF ranging from Rs 250 to Rs 1,000 on those flying out from these airports, a government official said.

Airlines said the move will also hit traffic. “Air traffic on non-metro routes is still very low. Higher tariff would only act as a dampener,” an executive of a low-cost airline said.

AAI has sought the approval for a similar levy at Coimbatore and Madurai airports, along with several other smaller ones. While it has proposed a levy of Rs 500 on each domestic passenger flying out from these two airports, international travellers would have to fork out Rs 1,000 if the proposal is approved.

In case of Coimbatore airport the AAI has proposed to collect the fee for the next 10 years. At Madurai airport the levy is suppose to be for the next 15 years.

UDF is a charge levied by airport operator to recover part of its investment made for upgradation of an airport. Unlike metro airports where development fee is decided by the airports regulator, Airport Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), AAI’s proposal would need only the aviation ministry’s nod as AERA does not have a jurisdiction over the smaller airports.

Consulting firm KPMG’s infrastructure analyst S Vasudevan said that till the government institutionalises a mechanism to determine tariff (landing, parking and other charges like navigation), AAI has every right to collect UDF in order to get reasonable return on investment. “But this should not result into super normal profit. We think AAI would not do so as its mandate is to provide airport infrastructure,” Mr Vasudevan said.

AAI, which owns most of the airports in the country, has invested about Rs 3,500 crore in modernising 24 non-metro airports. Besides, it is pumping in Rs 5,000 crore for upgrading Chennai and Kolkata airports. AAI’s airport upgrade work involves an investment of Rs 12,434 crore during the current Five-Year Plan ending March 2012.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/5842211.cms

[fuwad]

AI diverted Del-Aurangabad flight too for IPL players
Headlines Today Bureau
New Delhi, April 23, 2010

It's not just the Delhi-Coimbatore flight (IC-7603) that Air India diverted to facilitate IPL players.

Headlines Today has learnt that on April 12, Air India's Delhi-Aurangabad flight (IC-887) via Mumbai made an unscheduled stop at Jaipur to pick up Sachin Tendulkar's Mumbai Indians.

In a day and night match on April 11, the Mumbai Indians had defeated the Rajasthan Royals. On April 13, they were scheduled to play the Delhi Daredevils in Mumbai.

Accordingly on April 12, IC-887 scheduled from Delhi to Aurangabad via Mumbai was asked to make an unscheduled landing in Jaipur.

According to the information available, the plane took off 45 minutes late from Delhi at 1 pm. It landed in Jaipur at 2.20 pm. Having picked up the Mumbai Indians, it then flew to Mumbai much behind its normal arrival schedule at 3.05 pm.

This is the second flight that Air India diverted for IPL players. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel's daughter Poorna Patel is already in the dock for getting a scheduled Air India flight to ferry herself and some IPL players to Chennai.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/St...L+players.html

[fuwad]

Kingfisher Airlines is likely to start a daily air service to Jaisalmer from Aurangabad via Jodhpur and Udaipur.

http://www.hindu.com/mag/2010/05/09/...0950340800.htm