Jammu airport’s modernised terminal | building to open for passengers today
TNN Bureau. Updated: 8/17/2017 11:42:51 AM
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JAMMU: The upgraded, newly expanded state-of-the-art terminal building of Jammu Airport will be thrown open for its passengers today as Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Union Minister for Civil Aviation P Ashok Gajapathi Raju will inaugurate the new building in the presence of Union Ministers of State Jitendra Singh and Jayant Sinha.
Informing about the inauguration, Jammu Divisional Commissioner Mandeep Bhandari said, “The Jammu Airport is set to offer a world-class experience to passengers with an expanded and modernised terminal.” He added that Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and state Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta will also be present during the opening.
The coming up of a modern terminal has remained a challenging task, due to the Airport remaining an operationally busy airport.
Director Airports Authority of India (AAI) D K Gautam, while affirming the same, said the departure hall on the ground floor of the Rs 80-crore project is ready and will be open to passengers from today.
“It was a major achievement for AAI that the expansion work in an airport considered "hypersensitive" because of security restrictions and faced with space constraints was carried out with any flight disruptions and with the minimum inconvenience to passengers,” Gautam said.
"Three aerobridges are also expected to be delivered by the end of September and will be commissioned by mid- November," he said, adding that a tensile fabric canopy from airport ticketing counters to the exit gate was almost ready and will protect passengers from extreme weather conditions.
Meanwhile, the security cover has been tightened around the area in view of the inauguration.
“All arrangements relating to security, traffic management, including alternative traffic routes, and other logistics have been taken care of,” said Jammu Divisional Commissioner Mandeep Bhandari, adding that Police and other administration officers have been directed to maintain the highest levels of coordination.