New Integrated Terminal at Vishakhapatnam Airport inaugurated

The New Integrated Terminal at Vishakhapatnam was inaugurated on Saturday - February 21, 2009. The Integrated Terminal Building at the Vishakhapatnam has an area of 21558 sqm (approx) and is made of glass and steel structure having modern passenger friendly facilities such as central air conditioning system, inline x-ray baggage inspection system integrated with the baggage conveyor system, escalators, public address system, Flight Information Display System (FIDS), CCTV for surveillance, check in counters, car parking, etc.

The Integrated Terminal Building has peak hour passenger handling capacity of 700 passengers and annual handling capacity of 7.3 lakhs. The Passenger handling capacity of the integrated building is Domestic - 200 arrival +200 departure and International - 150 arrival + 150 departure.

There are 20 Check-in counters and 3 X ray scanners (for baggage). There are 12 Immigration Counters (Dep. +Arr.), 8 Custom Counters(Dep. +.Arr.), 3 Security check units, 3 Conveyor Belt – arrival and 2 Aerobridges.

The new apron has been constructed to cater for parking of 6 nos. (2 nos. Category 'E', 1 no. Category 'D' and 3 nos. Category 'C') type of aircrafts in addition to existing capacity of 2 nos. Category 'C' type of aircraft and 6 Helicopters.

Source : Equity Bulls

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