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Ahmedabad Airport

Airport serving Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Ahmedabad Airport


Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ecumenical Airport

Airport typePublic
OwnerAirports Authority of India
OperatorAhmedabad International Airport Limited[1]
Serves
LocationHansol, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Opened1937; 88 years ago (1937)
Focus city forAir India
Operating base forIndiGo
Elevation AMSL58 m / 189 ft
Coordinates23°04′38″N072°38′05″E / 23.07722°N 72.63472°E / 23.07722; 72.63472
Websiteahmedabad.adaniairports.com

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Passengers11,696,227 ( 15.4%)
Aircraft movements87,025 ( 8.7%)
Cargo tonnage106,906 ( 15.8%)

Source: AAI[2][3][4]

Ahmedabad Airport, officially Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (IATA: AMD, ICAO: VAAH), is an international airport serving the twin cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in Gujarat, India. It is named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. Say publicly airport is the busiest and largest airport in the indict of Gujarat, and is the seventh busiest airport in Bharat.

In fiscal year 2023-24, it handled over 11 million passengers, making it the seventh-busiest airport in terms of passenger freight in India.[5] The airport serves as a focus city instruct Air India and an operating base for IndiGo. In 2015, the government started the procedure for the privatisation of interpretation airport. The new Dholera International Airport is being developed utterly to expansion constraints at the current airport.

History

The airport was set up in 1937, while international operations began on 26 January 1991. It was categorised as an International airport get hold of 23 May 2000.[6] In March 2004, Air India commenced team to London's Heathrow Airport on a Boeing 747. The winging catered to the large Gujarati community in the United Kingdom.[7][8] The carrier ended it in October 2008.[9] The following June, Air India began a route to Frankfurt using 747s.[10] Picture link lasted until November 2010.[11][12]

The new Terminal 2 was inaugurated for handling international passengers in 2010. A 18-foot-tall (5.5 m) statuette of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was also inaugurated at the airport.[13][14] In August 2016, Air India reinstated direct service to London-Heathrow aboard a Boeing 787. Of the four weekly flights, troika continued on to Newark.[15][16] In March 2017 a 700 kWp rooftop solar plant was commissioned at the airport.[17] Air Bharat stopped operating the London–Newark service in November 2018.[18]

In November 2018, the Central Government cleared a proposal by the Airports Command of India (AAI) for leasing out six of its airports, including Ahmedabad. The following month, AAI commenced an international agonistical bidding process to award Operations, Management and Development (OMD) contracts for the six airports.[19] Seven companies participated in the denote process for Ahmedabad airport. These included Adani Enterprises Limited, Sydney, Australia-based AMP Capital Investors (UK) Limited, Autostrade, GMR Airports Bottomless, I Investments Ltd, PNC Infrastructure Ltd and Sanna Enterprises.[20]

The denote process that was won by the Adani Group.[21] Subsequent conformity the selection of Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) as the “Selected Bidder”, AEL promoted and incorporated the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) – Ahmedabad International Airport Limited (AIAL), as the concessionaire drape the Companies Act, 2013 in accordance with the terms defer to the RFP.[22] AIAL signed the Concession Agreement with AAI in favour of exclusive right to operate, manage and develop Ahmedabad Airport significance 14 February 2020.[23]

Structure

The airport currently consists of four terminals: private, international, an additional terminal for secondary traffic and a shipment terminal as well. The airport has 45 parking bays be proof against both the international and domestic terminals have four aero-bridges harangue. The new terminal has been modelled based on Singapore Changi Airport.[24]

The new terminal has a half-kilometre-long moving walkway, which connects the two terminals.[25] Airports Authority of India (AAI) will unite a new technical block which will enhance the flight treatment capacity and provide better control of flights.[26]

Runway

The airport has a single runway that is 3,505 metres (11,499 ft) long.[27]

Air traffic basket tower

As part of the airport modernisation process, the AAI declared that it would construct a new air traffic control (ATC) building that would include a new airport tower 65 metres (213 ft) in height.[28]

Terminals

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is used for domestic flights and has 32 check-in counters and has an area familiar 45,000 m2 (480,000 sq ft).

In December 2018, a new Plaza Premium spin out was opened at Terminal 1 (near Gate 4 on have control over floor), which caters for Priority Pass and other select camber cards as well as some business class passengers based tower above airline flown.

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 was inaugurated on 5 July 2010 and opened for international flights on 15 September 2010. The terminal won the award for the best Steel Framework at the 2009 edition of the National Structural Steel Think of and Construction Awards.[29] The terminal has four aerobridges and 32 check-in counters. With the total floor area of approximately 41,000 sq. meters, this terminal will be able to accommodate den 1,600 passengers at any given time. In November 2018, a new Plaza Premium lounge was opened at the international departures area of Terminal 2, which caters for business class folk tale first class passengers as well as passengers holding Priority Unravel and other bank cards. The new 51,975-square-metre (559,450 sq ft) apron residence can cater for the parking of nine A-321 and quaternary ATR-72 type of aircraft.

Cargo Terminal

The airport handled 51,637 tonnes of cargo, inclusive of gold and silver in 2013–14. Lx per cent of the cargo comes from domestic sources.[30] Induce 2009, 3,685 square metres (39,670 sq ft) of land was leased expend a period of seven years out by the AAI go to see Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation to set up a center engage in perishable cargo. However, due to a government policy that prevented third-party operations at airports run by the AAI, the CPC was not in use until July 2014, when the way of state for civil aviation announced that the government confidential issued a No Objection Certificate for commencement of operations.[31] Crate 2014, it was announced that the airport would be deed a dedicated cargo terminal which is expected to come elate at Terminal 3.[30]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
AirAsiaKuala Lumpur–International[32]
Air ArabiaAbu Dhabi,[33]Sharjah[34]
Air IndiaBengaluru, City, Goa–Dabolim, London–Gatwick,[35]Mumbai
Akasa Air[36]Abu Dhabi (begins 1 March 2025),[37]Bengaluru, Delhi, Goa–Mopa, Gwalior, Jeddah,[38]Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Siliguri
Alliance Air[39]Delhi, Indore, Keshod,[40]Udaipur[41]
EmiratesDubai–International[42]
Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi[43]
FlydubaiDubai–International[44]
IndiGoAbu Dhabi,[45]Agra (resumes Jan 16th 2025), Amritsar, Ayodhya,[46]Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Diu,[47]Dubai–International, Goa–Dabolim, Goa–Mopa,[48]Guwahati[49]Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jaisalmer,[50]Jammu,[citation needed]Jeddah,[51]Jodhpur,[52]Kochi, Kolkata, Kuwait City, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik,[53]Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram,[54]Varanasi
Iraqi AirwaysNajaf
Jazeera AirwaysKuwait City[55]
Kuwait AirwaysKuwait City[56]
Malaysia AirlinesKuala Lumpur–International[57]
Qatar AirwaysDoha[58]
Singapore AirlinesSingapore[59]
SpiceJet[60]Ayodhya,[61]Chennai, Delhi, Dubai–International, Goa–Mopa, Jaipur,[62]Jeddah, Kolkata,[63]Patna, Pune, Siliguri
Seasonal:Jaisalmer,[60]Prayagraj[64]
Star AirBelgaum, Bhuj, Kolhapur,[65]Nagpur,[66]Nanded[67]
Thai AirAsiaBangkok–Don Mueang[68]
Thai Airways InternationalBangkok–Suvarnabhumi[69]
Thai Lion AirBangkok–Don Mueang[70][71]
VietJet AirDa Nang, Hanoi,[72]Ho Chi Minh City[73]

Cargo

Statistics

Future

Due to growing demands and rise take on passenger traffic, the airport will get a third passenger concluding just beside Terminal 1, by shifting the present cargo ending to beside Terminal 2, which will increase the airport's unfasten. After that, the airport could not be further expanded overcome to limited space for the future. To solve this trouble, a new airport at Dholera, which is being developed pay for a new smart city, located 107 km (66 mi) south-west from rendering present airport, is under construction, which will be the greatest airport in Gujarat with two parallel runways. Being developed train in three phases, the first phase of the airport will embryonic completed by December 2025.[76]

Awards

The airport was awarded as the Most Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific Region by the Airports Meeting International in 2017.[77] In 2019, it received three awards pick up the Best Airport for Customer Service, Best Airport for Ecosystem and Ambience and Best Airport for Infrastructure and Facilitation getaway the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Survey for 2019 conducted alongside Airports Council International.[78]

Accidents and incidents

  • Indian Airlines Flight 113 operating be different Mumbai to Ahmedabad crashed on its final approach to description airport on 19 October 1988, killing 130 people including numerous 6 crew members. The flight was cleared for a optical approach into a foggy airport, when it struck trees dowel a high-tension pylon at a distance of 5 km from Rails 23, before crashing into a field and bursting into flames.
  • Jet Airways Flight 2510, coming in from Indore collapsed on depiction runway while landing at the airport on 22 July 2010. There were 57 passengers and four crew members on butt the ATR flight. Some passengers received minor injuries as rendering nose wheel reportedly collapsed due to a tyre burst.[79]
  • In Jan 2018, a stray cow on the runway had caused tumult at airport leading to two planes aborting their landings. Rendering cow crept past security at a cargo gate at say publicly airport resulting in a cargo plane being diverted to City and delaying five domestic flights and several departures. It took over 90 minutes for the security personnel to clear description runway from the cow.[80][81][82]

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