12 routes, 600 fliers a day: Plans afoot to expand Hindon terminal
Ghaziabad: District administration has identified nine hectares in Sikandarpur village for the expansion of Hindon civil terminal. A joint survey of the land by Airports Authority of India and civil aviation ministry is now lined up.
As flight operations began on 12 routes, including the metro cities, earlier this year, the terminal witnessed a daily average footfall of 600 passengers, which is likely to reach its saturation point of 700–800 daily passengers.On Wednesday, an AAI official told TOI the terminal building would be expanded to add taxi bays and improve other passenger amenities, like parking capacity, and an estimated five acres would be required for the project.The civil terminal was developed in 2017 after seven acres (22,250 sqm) of land from Sikandarpur, next to the IAF base, was acquired to start the commercial flight operations that could effectively reduce the burden on Delhi's IGI Airport till the Noida International Airport took shape. (The terminal building is currently housed on 10 acres).Over the years, the civil terminal struggled to maintain consistent flight operations. The first commercial flight, operated by Heritage Aviation to Pithoragarh in Oct 2019, faced multiple disruptions and was eventually suspended indefinitely. Star Air launched services to Hubli and Kalburgi in late 2019 but ceased operations by Jan 2023.It was the entry of AI Express in March this year that virtually made Hindon the second airport in NCR. The terminal is now connected to all the metro cities, with a daily flight each to Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, and two to Bengaluru. AI Express also operates on the Goa, Jammu and Bhubaneswar routes.Bengaluru-based aviation company Star Air also operates two flights from Hindon to Nanded in Maharashtra and Adampur in Punjab under the
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The other three routes—Bathinda, Ludhiana and Kishanganj—are operated by Gurgaon-based FlyBig.District magistrate Deepak Meena told TOI that they received direction from the civil aviation ministry to look for a land parcel in the vicinity of the Hindon civil terminal recently. "We conducted an on-spot survey at Sikandarpur village and identified about 9 hectares of land and submitted a report to the ministry.
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The ministry and AAI will now conduct a joint survey and see if the land parcel could be used for the expansion of the terminal. The administration will only act as a facilitator between landowners and the AAI," Meena said.A few farmers, from whom land was acquired in the first phase in 2017, have said they could consider parting with land as per the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, which allows compensation that is twice the circle rate. The existing circle rate is about 11,000/sqm in the area.
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