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Delhi airport’s new look

25 Comments 12 October 2010


Delhi will get a swanky new airport terminal next month, making it one of the largest airports anywhere in the world. While the official launch isn’t for another two weeks, NewsX correspondent Ridhima Tomar managed to get you this sneak preview.

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Airports in India: Take on to Your Destination

No Comments 08 October 2010



An airport is a location where aircraft such as airplanes, helicopter, and blimps take off and land. It consists of at least one surface such as a runway, a helipad, or water for takeoffs and landings, and often includes buildings such as hangars and terminal buildings. Incepted the conventional transportation by palanquins, which was one of the luxurious methods used by the rich and nobles for traveling purposes, a list of airports in India is grouped by state or Union Territory.



One can not say they have been neglected from the top priority list. Going by some important facts, it is completing to take a re-look in Airports in India. To satisfy the splurge in the demand for air travel, Air India purchased more than 68 jets from Boeing and Indian Airlines purchased 43 jets from Airbus. Also, others who have recently made significant investments in air travel are Jet Airways, IndiGo Airlines and Kingfisher Airlines.



This has made air travel more luxurious and has immensely benefited the travelers and the travel agents.



Today, India boasts of a well-developed air network. In a vast country like India air-travel is the fastest mode of transportation to reach from one end to another. There is a good air connection to nearly all corners of India. Almost all the states and Union Territory have more than two airports, which are regularized by necessary air services with several airlines.



The number of full-fledged Airports in India is total up to nearly 92, out of which 12 are international airports. Each airport has good arrangements of signaling, landing, waiting lunge, etc. much of that many of the Airports in India are going under modernization every soon. Of that some are Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai, Bangalore International Airport Bangalore, Karnataka, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport Kolkata, West Bengal, Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Guwahati, Assam, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Chennai International Airport Chennai, Hyderabad Airport Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Goa Airport Vasco Da Gama, Goa, Amritsar International Airport Amritsar, Punjab, Cochin International Airport Cochin, Kerala, Trivandrum International Airport Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, etc.



In the past few years, several investments have been made in the Indian air industry to make use of its vast unutilized air transport network. Many low cost air carriers have also entered the Indian market in the past two to three years. This has also benefited the Indian economy and is the cause of the boom in the tourism industry.

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Airport-Check-in: Airports see funding source in naming rights

No Comments 02 October 2010

Airport-Check-in: Airports see funding source in naming rights
From USA TODAY’s Airport Check-in column: Wichita Mid-Continent is the latest airport to consider selling terminal naming rights in an effort to raise money.

Read more on USA Today

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Spokane airport’s longer runway to open – Wed, 22 Sep 2010 PST

No Comments 23 September 2010

Spokane airport’s longer runway to open – Wed, 22 Sep 2010 PST
Spokane International Airport will open its new runway extension on Thursday morning after months of major construction.

Read more on The Spokesman-Review

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Airports and Airport Information in South Africa

No Comments 14 September 2010

Of South Africas many wonders the airports are mostly always your 1st encounter and starting point to the diversity of this beautiful and colorful land. We have tried to make your trip as painless as we can with what we do and we give you our most valued guests and clients the name, number and address of the airports that are available for International and National flights.

All national and international destination airports have shops, restaurants and pubs to will the time away while you wait.

For flight information: 086 727 7888

For the information desk: +27 (0) 11 921 6262

Email address for all airports: webmaster@acsa.co.za

Johannesburg International Airport- ORTIA (now know as Oliver. R. Thambo International Airport)

Telephone: +27 (0) 11 921 6911

Fax: +27 (0) 11 921 6422

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 11 921 6262

Address: Private Bag X1

O. R. Thambo International Airport

1627

Cape Town International Airport- CTIA

Telephone: +27 (0) 21 937 1275

Fax: +27 (0) 21 936 2937

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 21 937 1257

Address: Private Bag X9002

Cape Town international Airport

7525

Durban International Airport- DIA

Telephone: +27 (0) 31 451 6666

Fax: +27 (0) 31 451 6674

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 31 451 6758

Address: PO Box X1

Durban International Airport

4029

Bloemfontein National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 51 407 2240

Fax: +27 (0) 51 433 2862

Helpdesk Telephone: +27 (0) 51 407 2240

Helpdesk Fax: +27 (0) 51 433 1485

Address: Private Bag X20562

Bloemfontein

9300

East London National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 43 706 0304

Fax: + 27 (0) 43 706 0313

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 43 706 0306

Address: Private Bag X109

East London

5200

George National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 44 876 9310

Fax: +27 (0) 44 876 9027

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 44 876 9310

Address: PO Box 10000

George

6530

Kimberley National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 53 851 1241

Fax: +27 (0) 53 851 1032

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 53 830 7101

Address: Private Bag X5052

Kimberley

8300

Pilanesberg National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 14 552 1261

Fax: +27 (0) 14 552 1244

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 14 552 1261

Address: Private Bag X1016

Mogwase

0314

Port Elizabeth National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 41 507 7348

Fax: +27 (0) 41 507 7240

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 41 507 7319

Address: Aeropark Office Complex

Block A 1st Floor

Alister Miller Drive

Walmer

Uppington National Airport

Telephone: +27 (0) 54 337 7900

Fax: +27 (0) 54 332 6502

Helpdesk: +27 (0) 54 337 7900

Address: Private Bag X5936

Uppington

8800

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