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`Bangalore airport will be third largest soon'

Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE: By the end of 11th Five Year Plan (2011-12), Bangalore's airport will emerge as India's third biggest airport after Mumbai and Delhi, D.P. Singh, General Manager (Department of Corporate Planning and Management Services), Airports Authority of India (AAI), Delhi, said here on Friday.

He told The Hindu that AAI was planning to use the existing airport at Bangalore as workshop for aircraft maintenance once the new (international airport) airport was commissioned.

Mr. Singh, along with N. K. Puri, Executive Director (Department of Corporate Planning and Management Services), AAI, Delhi, was here to assess the potential of air traffic passengers, especially in Mangalore, Kasaragod and Kannur regions.

He said the international traffic of this region (Mangalore, Kasaragod and Kannur) grew at the rate of 20 per cent in 2005-06.

Growth in traffic

The all-India international traffic grew at the rate of 16.9 per cent in the last financial year. The rate of growth of this region was more than the national one.

Mr. Singh said there was potential for the growth of air passenger traffic in Mangalore, Kasaragod and Kannur regions. There was potential for the growth of tourism traffic.

Mr. Puri said that the AAI was in the process of collecting data of passenger traffic from the region.

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