The Kerala government has granted environmental clearance for runway correction work at Calicut airport necessitated after a probe into the 2020 Air India Express air crash that killed 21, the Centre informed Parliament. The environmental clearance was awarded on July 11,2024, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Murlidhar Mohol, informed the Rajya Sabha in response to a question from …
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode and the Airports Authority of India jointly launched a free reading lounge at the domestic departure terminal of the Calicut International Airport on Monday. IIMK Director Prof. Debashis Chatterjee and Calicut Airport Director Seshadrivasam Suresh jointly inaugurated the lounge named ‘Gyan Pankh’. Gyan Pankh, which translates into ‘wings of knowledge’, is also a tribute …
The concerns over shortening of the existing runway at the Calicut International Airport have begun to blow over with the Airports Authority of India inviting tenders for the Runway End Safety Area extension. As the airport has a tabletop runway, the RESA expansion could be possible only by building huge embankments at eastern and western ends of the runway, for …
At each of the Indian airports run by the Airports Authority of India, a 100 to 200 square feet area has been earmarked for local self-help groups to sell their products, according to a statement on Friday. A few outlets have already been commissioned at Chennai, Agartala, Dehradun, Kushinagar, Udaipur and Amritsar airports where self-help groups operated by local women …
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre and state government on a plea alleging that unauthorised COVID-19 testing was being carried out at Calicut airport by a lab which was not approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research. Besides the Ministries of Health and Civil Aviation, Justice N Nagaresh also issued notice to the …
