AAI seeks 5,000 acres for new Chennai airport
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The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has informed the state government of Tamil Nadu that it was prepared to construct a second airport for Chennai, located at Sriperumbudur, provided 5,000 acres of land was made available for the purpose.The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has cleared the new airport project in its feasibility study earlier, domain-b.com reported.The civil aviation ministry had earlier announced that construction of the new airport would not be handed over to the private sector. According to AAI sources, the government would now decide whether to construct a new airport or to build a parallel runway at the existing airport, the report said.
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