AIRPORTS AUTHORITY OF

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New Integrated Terminal Building at Goa International Airport dedicated to the nation by Union Minister for Civil Aviation

Goa, 3rd December, 2013

A new Integrated Terminal building, built by Airports Authority of India has been dedicated to the Nation by Shri Ajit Singh, Union Minister for Civil Aviation in the august presence of Shri Bharat Vir Wanchoo, Governor of Goa, Shri Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister of Goa, Shri KC Venugopal, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Shri Francisco Sardinha, Member of Parliament, Shri Shantaram Naik, Member of Parliament and other dignitaries.

The New Terminal Building at Goa is an integrated terminal building capable of handling both domestic and international operations. The terminal building is equipped with modern state of the art facilities such as 5 Nos. of passenger boarding bridges, CUTE enabled Check in counters, inline compatible baggage handling system, software based building management system, elevators and escalators. The terminal building can handle 2750 peak hour passengers at a time. The Terminal building has been built at a cost of Rs. 345cr. Keeping in view the growth of passenger traffic at Goa airport, Airports Authority of India has already given a go ahead for development of western side finger of the terminal building, at a cost of plus Rs.40cr to further enhance the handling capacity and operational efficiency. Three additional passenger boarding bridges shall be provided.

The New Integrated Terminal building is expected to contribute immensely towards promotion of Tourism in the state in particular and economic development in general.

Speaking on the occasion dignitaries appreciated the efforts of Airports Authority of India and also acknowledged the cooperation extended by the State Government and Indian Navy towards this project by handing over the land to AAI

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Issued by Public Relations Department For details please contact: GM(PR) 9810025069, 011‐24622787 No.42/2013‐14

Photo 1 Caption:

Shri Ajit Singh, Union Minister of Civil Aviation lighting the lamp on the occasion of Inauguration of New Integrated Terminal Building of Goa International Airport in the august presence of Shri Bharat Vir Wanchoo, Governor of Goa, Shri Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister of Goa, Shri KC Venugopal, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Shri Francisco Sardinha, Member of Parliament, Shri VP Agrawal, Chairman, AAI and other dignitaries.

Photo 2 caption:

Shri Ajit Singh, Union Minister of Civil Aviation inaugurating the New Integrated Terminal Building of Goa International Airport in the august present of Shri Bharat Vir Wanchoo, Governor of Goa, Shri Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister of Goa, Shri KC Venugopal, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Shri VP Agrawal, Chairman, AAI and other dignitaries.

Notes to the Editor

Airports Authority of India (AAI) is the mainstay of Civil Aviation Sector in the country. Constituted on 1st April, 1995, AAI today manages 125 airports including 19 international airports (3 civil enclaves), 7 custom airports (4 civil enclaves), 80 domestic airports and 19 other civil enclaves. AAI also provides CNS‐ATM facilities at all the civil airports in the country. AAI controls and manages the entire Indian airspace covering 2.8 million square nautical miles which includes 1.05 million square nautical miles on land and 1.75 million square nautical miles over the ocean. AAI continuously engages in the modernization and upgradation of airport infrastructure both metro and non‐metro airports including Tier‐II & Tier‐III cities.

Goa Airport is owned by Indian Navy and AAI maintains the civil enclave. Goa airport is developed as one of the Model Airport. In order to meet growing requirement of traffic and to provide world class airport facilities, AAI has constructed a New Integrated Terminal building at Goa airport with the state‐of‐the‐ art facilities.

Goa Airport handled 28.88 lacs Domestic and 6.55 lacs International passengers during the year 2012‐ 13. Total flight movement at Goa was 27690 for the year 2012‐13 i.e an average 533 movements per week and 76 movements per day. Presently all Indian Domestic and International carriers like Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, Go Air, IndiGo, Air Arabia, Qatar Airways Airlines are operating from Goa. Chartered flights by various International Airlines also operate to and from Goa during winter season.

The existing terminals at Goa has a total floor area of 10860 sqm which can handle 300 domestic passengers 300 international passengers at a time.

The New Integrated Terminal Building

New Terminal Building at Goa is multi level building with ground floor caters upto domestic & international arrival and departure check in, remote domestic arrival & departure. First floor caters to security, custom, immigration and arriving of domestic & international passengers. Second floor provides for domestic & international security hold. Basement has

In line compatible baggage handling facility, substation / AC plant room & all other services. The building is equipped with modern facilities and local culture and heritage is depicted through Art & Mural works at various locations in the Terminal interiors.

Salient Features of the Terminal Building

Annual Integrated Capacity : 4.0 Million px

Immigration Counters : 30 Nos.

Domestic Passenger Capacity : 3.2 Million px

Passenger Boarding Bridge : 05 Nos.

International Passenger Capacity : 0.8 Million px Customs Counter : 04 Nos.

Total Peak Hour Capacity : 2750 Pax

Security gates : 05 Nos.

Domestic Peak hour Capacity : 2000 Pax

Conveyor Belts‐ Departure/Arrival : 6/4 Nos.

International Peak Hour Capacity : 750 Pax

Check‐in‐Counters (CUTE) : 64 Nos.

Total building area : 63913 Sqm.

Elevators : 15 Nos.

Multi level car‐parking : 570 Cars

Escalators : 12 Nos.

Brief on Airports Authority of India Introduction

Infrastructure development, although capital intensive with large gestation period, is the key contributor towards sustained growth and occupies an important place in the economic development of the country. India registered four‐fold growth in the GDP between 1990 and 2010 fuelled by private consumption and the investment demand. Airports Authority of India (AAI) is a major Airport Operator and a leader in infrastructure building for developing Airport infrastructure along the length and breadth of the country including remote and far flung areas. AAI came into existence on 01.04.1995 with the merger of National Airports Authority and International Airports Authority of India. AAI is also a Mini‐Ratna Category 1 Public Sector Enterprise.

Airports Authority of India (AAI) is the mainstay of Civil Aviation sector in the country. AAI manages 125 airports, including 19 international airports (3 civil enclaves), 7 custom airports (4 civil enclaves), 80 domestic airports and 19 other civil enclaves. AAI also provides CNS‐ATM facilities at all the civil airports in the country. AAI controls and manages the entire Indian airspace covering 2.8 million square nautical miles, which includes 1.05 million square nautical miles on land and 1.75 million square nautical miles over the ocean. AAI is continuously engaged in the modernization and upgradation of airport infrastructure, both metro and non‐ metro airports including Tier‐II and Tier‐III cities.

Development of Airport Infrastructure

The passenger traffic, having witnessed phenomenal surge in the last decade placing the Indian civil aviation sector on a high growth trajectory, increased from 37.0 million in 1995‐96 to 162.3 million in 2011‐12. This surge in traffic led to congestions at major airports affecting air safety and operational efficiency.

To enhance airport infrastructure in India, modernization of existing airport infrastructure in metro & non‐metro cities and construction of greenfield airports were contemplated to bridge the gap between the available airport capacity and the projected demand. Resources being limited, strategies were evolved to augment and create airport capacity ahead of demand schedule at busy airports in an optimal manner by leveraging technology and adopting best management skills & practices including private sector participation in upgradation of airport infrastructure at airports in Delhi and Mumbai. Over the years, passenger handling capacity has increased from 72 million (FY‐06) to 233 million (FY‐12). Although growth in passenger traffic is negative this fiscal, it is expected to bounce back with promotion of regional connectivity. XII Five Year Plan (2012‐17) envisages an investment of Rs.65,000 crores at Indian airports, of which around Rs.50,000 crore is expected from the private sector.

AAI has completed expansion and upgradation of two metro airports at Kolkata and Chennai Airports at the cost of Rs.2324 crores and Rs.2015 crores, respectively. Annual cargo handling capacity and efficiency of operations at Chennai Airport has been augmented to handle 11 lakh MT of cargo with the construction of new modern Import Cargo Complex equipped with Automatic Storage Retrieval System at a cost of Rs.144 crores.

Development of selected 35 non‐metro airports has been undertaken by AAI which are identified based on the regional connectivity, development of regional hubs, places of major tourist attraction and potential for development as business hubs. Projects at 32 airports have been completed. In the current financial year (FY 2013‐14), new terminals were commissioned at Chennai, Bhubaneswar and Ranchi airports and development at New Civil Enclaves completed at Bhatinda, Jaisalmer and Bikaner.

In line with the green building concept, utilization of renewable sources of energy and for sustainability, Solar Photo Voltaic Power Plants have been commissioned at Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi, airports at Raipur, Jaisalmer and Guwahati and work is awarded for Bhopal and Indore Airports.

Details of Projects

Projects Completed (Terminal Building & allied works) Metro cities: Chennai & Kolkata (mega projects) Non‐metro cities: Amritsar, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kullu, Srinagar, Udaipur, Varanasi, Gaya, Agra, Cooch Behar, Agartala, Barapani (Shillong), Dibrugarh, Lilabari, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Nagpur, Pune, Surat, Calicut, Guwahati, Madurai, Mangalore, Mysore (new aerodrome), Trichy, Trivandrum, Vizag, Chandigarh, Indore, Lucknow, Gondia (new aerodrome), Coimbatore, Jalgaon (new aerodrome), Raipur, Rajahmundry, Puducherry, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar and Goa (New Integrated Terminal Building).

New Civil Enclaves ‐ Bhatinda, Jaisalmer and Bikaner

Projects Nearing Completion (Terminal Building & allied works) Khajuraho and Kadappa.

Projects in progress Vadodara, Teju (Arunachal Pradesh), Tirupati, ( ‐ new ) and Chandigarh (Mohali side)

Projects on the Anvil (New Terminals & Aerodromes) Port Blair, Jammu, Guwahati, Itanagar (new greenfield airport), Deoghar (Jharkhand), Kishangarh (Rajasthan), Hubli & Belgaum (Karnataka), Leh (J&K), Jharsuguda (Odisha), Vijaywada (AP), Raigarh (Chattisgarh), Pantnagar (Uttranchal), Solapur (Maharashtra) and Meerut (UP).

CNS/ ATM Infrastructure

In addition to the ground based Airports infrastructure, AAI has taken many strides in modernizing its CNS/ATM facilities. Wherein, AAI has drawn up the Master Plan for implementation of Future Air Navigation System (FANS). This includes shift from Voice Communication to Digital Data Communication and from Ground Based Navigation to Satellite Based Navigation (i.e. GAGN India SBAS), Modern Radar Coverage with ADS‐B, Multi‐lateration etc. The implementation of the CNS/ATM Master Plan will put India amongst the elite group of countries having an efficient ATM system supported by a strong and robust ATM/ CNS infrastructure consisting of Digital Data Communication, Integrated ATM Automation network, System Wide Information Management (SWIM), Aeronautical Information Management (AIM). The aim being to provide safe, efficient & cost effective environment friendly ATM services, applying Gate to Gate approach and to achieve a “Collaborative and Co‐ordinate Global Approach” to ensure harmonization and adoption of the technological solutions. In the recently held Global ATM Conference at Amsterdam on 5th March 2012, AAI has won the prestigious JANE’S Award for “Efficiency, Improvement and Initiatives” for the pilot project of upper areas harmonization and Radar Integration at Chennai.

GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo‐Augmented Navigation System) is a satellite based navigation system being developed by AAI & ISRO, to deploy and certify an operational SBAS for the Indian Flight Information Region, with expansion capability to neighboring FIRs. When commissioned for service, GAGAN will provide a civil aeronautical navigation signal in consonance with the dictates laid down by ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) as established by the Global Navigation Satellite System Panel (GNSSP).

GAGAN after its final operational phase completion will be compatible with other SBAS systems such as the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) of USA, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) of European Union (EU) and the Multi‐functional Satellite Augmentation System (MSAS) of Japan and will provide seamless air navigation service across regional boundaries.

Central Air Traffic Flow Management System covering all airports and the entire airspace is under implementation. This will facilitate dynamic assessment of capacity vs. demand and optimum utilization of airport & airspace resources in co‐ordination with all stakeholders to achieve maximum benefits in terms of fuel savings, on time performance and reduced carbon emission. Accolades

Airports Authority of India received various accolades key being –

 Two ATC Global Awards 2013 for Excellence in ANSP Management as well as for Strategic Advancement in Air Transport, Janes International ATC Award 2012 for excellence in CNS / ATM service.

 Chennai Airport won “Airport of the Year” 2011 and 2012.

 Kolkata Airport won “Emerging Cargo Airport of the year 2010”.

 Terminals at Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Trivandrum Airports were adjudged as the Winning Entries during the national competition for Steel Structure by FICCI‐INSDAG, Ministry of Steel in the year 2011.

 New Integrated Terminals at Bhopal and Indore were declared as first and second best buildings for its optimal design and quality of steel work execution by the Institute of Steel Development and Growth 2012 (INSDAG) under Ministry of Steel, in competition with buildings constructed in private sector.

 Today’s Traveller Award 2013 for “Excellence in Development of Airport Infrastructure in India”.

 AAI has won six “Engineering Excellence Awards” for five of its airports, namely, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Chennai and Ranchi, in various categories.

 AAI has received Hospitality India Award in the Category of “Best Infrastructure” for the year 2013.

 On the CSR front, AAI won ‐

o “Golden Peacock Eco‐Innovation Award 2012”

o Time of India & Teflas “FRAME CSR AWARD” for the year 2012

o 3rd Asia Best CSR Practice Award 2013

 Pakyong Airport in Sikkim was selected as Best Greenfiled Airport by the Greentech Foundation.

 AAI’s Lounge Magazine received –

o Best Magazine Award by Hospitality India for the year 2012 o Best Magazine Award by Hospitality India for the year 2013

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