Some dimensional information about the Bhubneswar airport
Bhubaneswar, Bringing International Connectivity February 4th. 2012, 8:25amFollowing is some data from http://www.aai.aero/allAirports/bhubaneshwar_technicalinfo.jsp.
Terminal Capacity
Domestic Arrival
Departure
300
400
Boarding Gates
Terminal Area and No. of Counters
Terminal
The new airport terminal that is being constructed will be much bigger.
- As per the wikipedia entry (as of now) its size will be 24,000 sq mtrs and its capacity will be 970 domestic passengers and 384 international passengers (Business Standard).
- The graphics below from this Telegraph article gives slightly different numbers:
Nevertheless, it is clear that the new terminal is about 4-6 times bigger than the current terminal.
The article at http://www.tathya.in/new/story.aspx?sno=6154 mentions that the new terminal is expected to be ready by June 2012 and then the current terminal is planned to be used as an international terminal.
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February 6th, 2012 at 10:58 am
Dont know what prevents the state govt to take up the issue regarding Rourkela airport.The kin ness it shows for BBSR is not at all felt when it comes to RKL airport.This comes at a tiem when industrialization is in full swing at RKL-JSG-SBP corrider.Why we are suppose to wait for 4 long years for JSG airport.Let teh airport be constructed at JSG but in the mean time why the state govt is not taking up the matter with AAI regarding the RKL airport.At one end they say looking at teh rapid industrialization we want the BBSR airport should be declared intl and at the other end we dont have direct flights to RKl from Kolkata and other metros.Well all i can say Ranchi and Kolkata is benifitting from Orissa\’s industrialization.No body from western orissa (may be personal or business purpose) is taking flight to or from BBSR.Instead most of them prefer going via Ranchi and Kolkata.Even Raipur is preferred because of close proximity.Guess i am making enough sense.
February 11th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Indigo will be shortly starting the following two fights with Bhubaneswar as one of the stops
Starting 16th Feb:
6E 293 Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Mumbai-Coimbatore
6E 294 Coimbatore-Mumbai-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata
Starting 7th March
6E 511 Chennai-Vizag-Bhubaneswar-Kolkata
6E 512 Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Vizag-Chennai
Jet will start operating a direct flight to Delhi starting 25th March
With the above flights the connectivity at Bhubaneswar to major cities will stand as follows
Delhi: 42 flights a week
Kolkata: 56 flights a week
Mumbai: 28 flights a week
Chennai: 12 flights a week
Bangalore: 14 fights a week
Hyderabad: 21 flights a week
February 12th, 2012 at 1:04 am
Thanks.