The date of commissioning of the country’s largest airport i.e. Noida International Airport has been revealed. Arun Veer Singh, CEO of Noida International Airport Limited, has given this information recently.
It will start next year in 2024, but if you are thinking that it will start before the general elections, then you will be a little disappointed. However, the date of opening of this airport has come to the fore. The special thing is that about 50 lakh passengers are expected to fly at this airport on the very first day.
Governments often try to complete or inaugurate big projects before elections. Recently a section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway was inaugurated in Dausa, Rajasthan. Assembly elections are to be held in Rajasthan by the end of this year.
Airport will be operational on this date
Arun Vir Singh, CEO of Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL), said in an interview to a news website that the work of the first phase of Noida Airport will be completed by 30 September 2023. According to the capacity of the rest of the passengers and cargo, the work of its other phases will continue
He told that the trial is expected to start at Noida airport by March 2024. While regular commercial and cargo flights can start from July 2024. At the same time, the first passenger flight is expected to fly from here from 1 October 2024.
The construction of Jewar Airport started in June 2021. Tata Projects is developing it in association with Zurich International Airport AG . Its construction is to be completed in 1,095 days.
3 crore passengers will fly in 5 years
Arun Veer Singh said that with the commissioning of Noida Airport, domestic and international flights will start flying simultaneously from here. Without affecting Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, 50 lakh passengers are likely to fly from here on the first day.
He said that the airport is likely to grow at a rate of 15 to 20 percent every year. In such a situation, in the next 5 years, the number of passengers flying from here can reach up to 30 million. Whereas in the next 5 years it can increase to 5 crores.
The airport will become Asia’s biggest transit hub
Noida International Airport is being developed as a transit hub like the airports of Japan, Australia and Singapore. It will allow passengers traveling between countries in the Asia-Pacific region to change flights. Zurich International Airport is in talks with Tata Group, Indigo, SpiceJet and other airlines for this.
He told that once the project is completed, there will be 5 runways here. Along with this, there will also be maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities. In this way its total capacity is expected to be 225 million passengers. This thing will make it the largest airport in Asia.
