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AHMEDABAD: The city’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (SVPIA) may soon get a third terminal. Adani Airports CEO Arun Bansal told TOI Wednesday that while work is on to expand the existing T1 and T2, Ahmedabad’s passenger growth is such that the airport needs a brand new terminal.
“We are working on this plan. The current capacity of T1 and T2 is about one crore passengers per annum. Our expansion work that includes bigger security hold areas will take the capacity to 1.6 crore. This year alone we expect to cross 1.3 crore passengers. So there is a need for a third terminal which we are working on,” Bansal said.
SVPIA has one runway. The Adani Group-run Mumbai Airport handles 4.5 crore passengers annually with one runway (it has cross runways so only one can be used at a time). So Adani Group can easily handle the traffic of T1, T2 and proposed T3 with the single runway.
When asked for details like capacity and location of T3, Bansal said, “We are in initial planning stages and will share the same in due course.”
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