Chennai dangers being left additional behind with out a new airport. The present airport is unlikely to have the ability to deal with the projected development. Capability and connectivity constraints may have severe ramifications for Tamil Nadu’s financial competitiveness and development, mentioned Kapil Kaul, CEO & Director, South Asia, South Asia Workplace of the Middle for Aviation (CAPA). CAPA is a supplier of aviation market intelligence supplier.
A brand new airport will allow Chennai to leverage its geographical location and multimodal infrastructure to determine itself as a passenger and freight hub between India/South Asia and ASEAN/Australia.
The Chennai airport has under-performed relative to different six metros registering amongst the slowest development charges for each passengers and cargo. This has been as a result of a mix of land and infrastructure constraints, and the absence of a industrial concentrate on community and hub improvement, he mentioned.
Chennai has the bottom home site visitors of the six metro airports and has seen the second slowest development since FY 2004. Solely Mumbai grew extra slowly as a result of its capability constraints. Chennai is the third largest metro airport for worldwide site visitors however has seen the second slowest development. In FY2004, its site visitors was greater than 4 instances than Bengaluru’s site visitors however in FY2020 it was solely 27 per cent greater, he mentioned.
Additional, Chennai handles the second lowest freight volumes amongst Indian metro airports and has seen the slowest development since FY2004. The town is the third largest airport for worldwide freight volumes however has seen the second slowest development since FY2004, he added.
Widespread imaginative and prescient
It could be essential to develop a standard imaginative and prescient and plan for the 2 airports that sees them operate as a single, built-in airport system, enabled excessive velocity floor connectivity between them, he mentioned
Kaul urged the State authorities to develop the airport considering the necessity for the 2-3 generations.
