With three international airports, Andhra Pradesh is sitting pretty in civil aviation sector
2 years ago

With three international airports, Andhra Pradesh is sitting pretty in civil aviation sector

The Hindu  

December 23, 2022 08:44 am | Updated 06:10 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA With three international airports — Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati — Andhra Pradesh is well connected to all major cities in India and to some foreign destinations also. On top of the AP Airports Development Corporation Limited ’s agenda is the construction of the Bhogapuram airport, which is just about 50 km from Visakhapatnam, which is a customs airport and also a civil enclave in the historic Naval air station INS Dega. Currently, the Visakhapatnam airport has the largest number of passenger footfalls and with the Andhra Pradesh High Court clearing the decks for Bhogapuram airport, which was stuck in land acquisition problems, the stage is set for a major step in the State’s aviation sector. *** Andhra Pradesh has three international airports and the State government has lined up a few other regional airports for development under the UDAN scheme being implemented by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to give a boost to small airports across the country.

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