25.12.11

New Terminal @ Lucknow airport

The new terminal is still in the finishing stage and may require few more days before it is actually made fully operational. In fact, some of the services like parking and connectivity are yet to be put in place and made operational. The first floor too is in the finishing stages. The airport director maintained that the terminal will be made fully operational in another 15 to 20 days time, if every thing went as per the plans. For the records, named after former prime minister Chawdhary Charan Singh, the two floored terminal spreading over an area of 20,000 sq mts will be big enough to house at least 750 passengers at any given point of time. Its construction started in 2008 and was repeatedly delayed, at times because of the labor problems. The new terminal building will have both domestic and international flights operations. Plans are afoot to renovate the old terminal building which would later be allocated for international operations, while the new terminal will handle domestic flights.

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