Andal Airport Terminal Goes Live and Moves towards Success

Just about 15 kilometers away from the Durgapur City exists the all new Kazi Nazrul Islam Flight terminal, which is a project under Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited (BAPL). Until now, it is a domestic flight terminal however it has strategies to turn out into an international one in the future. The Airport's exists at Andal, a small town near Durgapur, West Bengal. The airport actually is a part of India's first ever Aerotropolis project which is being looked after by BAPL. It is the country's first own Greenfield Airport terminal, which is having a city connected as well as its facilities managed under it.

 

The project has been assisted by a Singapore based firm named - Changi Airports International, who has actually offered the total technological knowledge to develop the flight terminal and also its other facilities. It is just one of the largest Airport management firms around the world. The firm is handed over the task of entire airport’s growth and development. A few of the other projects as completed by Changi Airports International are from city-states of Dubai, Hong Kong, as well as Singapore. The company has declared that the BAPL project is coming up to generate the very same kind of socio-economic growths in the Andal-Durgapur area, as it had performed in the other places they worked so far. 

The airport can manage about one million travelers in a year and the same can be extended to a capacity of 2.5 million passengers per year in near future. It has two conveyor belts for baggage transportations and also has concerning six check-in counters with great additional facilities been installed therein. The airport also holds some Food and Beverage outlets and also some other top quality retail outlets, Wi-Fi solutions, ATM counters, baby care area, facility and drug store, convenience store, a spa, and also a hotel booking counter.

The flight terminal has a CAT- I outfitted runway, which is 2800 meters in length. It can manage a narrow body aircraft like Boeing 737 and also Airplane A320. The flight terminal additionally has a helipad and four parking bays. Partha Ghosh of BAPL states that the company is predicted to turn up evolution of a new metro destination in the state of West Bengal. It will certainly raise fresh investments in the field of IT as well as related services in West Bengal. It will certainly boost up the air connection to the entire of eastern India – adds Mr. Partha Ghosh of Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited. 

Author's bio: Mr. Partha Ghosh who is the MD and overall supervisor of BAPL has synthesized this task in terms of unequaled success. The business is currently on its tracks as expected and moving along with an upward chart - claims Partha Ghosh of Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited.