Develpment in Gannavaram Airport

andhratalk · Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

Great news to Vijayawada airport. Atlast tenders are finalised for runway expansion at Vijayawada airport. This project goes to Kolkata based Avanti Agarwal Constructions.

Last week government freezed 14 companies to participate in the Final process. Yesterday above company was finalised among 10 participants at New Delhi.

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harry.potter · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 52

Yeah....lets hope all that happen fastly

Sir · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: Re: BAD NEWS

Bird-hit grounds Vijayawada-Hyderabad flight

SMALL BIRD CRIPPLES ‘BIG BIRD’: The Kingfisher airliner which made an emergency landing at the Vijayawada airport immediately after takeoff following a bird-hit.

VIJAYAWADA: Timely action by the pilot of Kingfisher flight bound for Hyderabad from Gannavaram averted a major air disaster on Friday.

Immediately after take off, the flight hit a bird and developed a snag in the engine.

The pilot who noticed it brought the flight back on the tarmac much to the relief of the 65 passengers, including BJP national vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu, Parchuru MLA Daggubati Venkateswara Rao and Chodavaram MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao.

Venkaiah Naidu who was to catch a Delhi flight in the evening at Hyderabad, cancelled his visit and left for Nellore by car.

The MLAs too left for Hyderabad immediately in their own cars, while the stranded passengers had a harrowing experience for sometime due to the indifferent attitude of airport officials.

A passenger said they were not even offered tea and even if they wanted to make their own arrangements to reach Hyderabad, the airport officials did not return their baggage leaving them stranded.

Some of the passengers who had to catch an evening flight to Singapore were the worried lot.

After heated arguments with officials, the latter arranged transport to some passengers.
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Sir · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:15 am Post subject: Vi

Expansion of runways at small airports delayed
Vijayawada Airport Expansion Delays.

State governments are not providing additional land to airports for expanding runways, a move which is delaying the expansion plan of several small airports in the country, a senior official said.

According to the Airports Authority of India (AAI), there are 17 airports across the country that have short runways - less than 7,000 feet - which make landing and take-off of big aircraft like Boeing and Airbus risky.

These include airports at Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh), Gaya (Bihar), Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), Jaipur, Udaipur (Rajasthan), Aurangabad (Maharashtra), Bhopal, Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Cooch Behar (West Bengal) and Pondicherry.

'The work on these projects was scheduled to start from April this year but the lackadaisical approach of the state governments was delaying the work,' an AAI official told IANS on condition of anonymity.

However, runway expansion works at Madurai and Trichy airports in Tamil Nadu, and Guwahati and Silchar airports in Assam have begun.

There are few other Indian Air Force airports also, where runway expansion was planned but did not take off. 'We are yet to get a formal clearance and additional land from the defence ministry,' the official added.

These include airports at Dibrugarh (Assam) and Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir.

The expansion of these runways is estimated to cost Rs.3 billion to the government exchequer.

Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA), a body representing commercial pilots in the country, has urged the government many times to extend runways at smaller airports as it endangers both passengers and aircraft.

'These airports have short runways and are not safe during heavy downpour,' ICPA general secretary Vikram Yadav told IANS.

'Earlier we had mid-sized aircraft landing at and taking off from these airports, but now Airbus and Boeing aircraft too operate from these airports. So it becomes necessary to expand the runways,' Yadav added.

The regional airlines, which were planning to launch services to new destinations, put their plans on hold, thanks to the uncertainly over runway expansion.

'Operating at smaller airports is a tricky situation and riskier too. We would expand air operations once runways at these airports are upgraded,' MDLR Airlines chief operations officer U.K. Bose said.
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