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'Kannur airport to become functional from mid-2016'

  •   Mon, Jul 20 2015 07:24:40 PM

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 20 (IANS): Kerala's upcoming fourth international airport at Kannur will begin commercial operations by the middle of 2016, a state minister said on Monday.

"Almost 60 percent of the runway work is complete. Also, 38 per cent work on the terminal building is finished. The first aircraft will land there on December 31. The airport will commence commercial operations by the middle of 2016," Ports and Excise Minister K. Babu told reporters.

Once the airport opens in north Kerala, it will become the only state in the country with four international airports.

Babu said other works at the Rs.1,890 crore international airport were also progressing fast and tenders floated for the purchase of different equipment.

Funds for the project would come through debt and equity, with the Kerala government holding 35 percent stake.

The remaining funds would come from the Airport Authority of India, oil major Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited and private participation.
  

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  • Dickson Dsouza, Kannur

    Fri, Jul 24 2015

    Really happy to hear that Kannur Airport will be functional from mid 2016,it is very close to my place thou,can reach home max by 30 minutes.
    Thank full for the whole team who are working on it

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  • DEV, KAIKAMBA

    Wed, Jul 22 2015

    oscar fernandes has gone to collect his oscar fro his outstanding work in the district....

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  • oliver, udupi

    Wed, Jul 22 2015

    lol...Dev, Kaikamba
    Gr8 comment

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  • Af,,, Mangaluru

    Wed, Jul 22 2015

    Mlore airport taxi stunt master will have to do now agriculture.

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  • oliver, udupi

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    a big blow to the Mangalore International Airport !!
    Now all the Malayalees will prefer Kannur over Mangalore.

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  • mohan, mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Kannur air port is good for smuggling for kasaragod and kannur people as most of the people business is smuggling. And kerala government is also sporting the smugglers as top to bottom government officials main aim is to make money. paise ke liye kuch be kerega.

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  • J. Almeida, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Traffic at Mangalore airport will not suffer. This is the admission of many of my Kasargod colleagues. Kannur airport is located in interior place which is far comparing to the distance from Mangalore to Kasargod by road. They still prefer Mangalore airport.

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  • joe, mangalore

    Wed, Jul 22 2015

    To compare with kannur..For that flight has to come to mangalore right.unless there are direct flights to mangalore.. mangalore airport does not qualify for such comparison and I don't think so keralites or mangaloreans will prefer next closest airport bangalore for us or cochin for keralites over kannur airport. ..

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  • Arthur Ronald D'souza, Belman/Abu Dhabi

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Our Beledanthi Janakule Party BJP leaders or MPS are busy with protecting cows and non progressive issues What do expect from these leaders of Karnataka.

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  • Prakash, Surathkal

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Loved the new abbreviation BJP .. LOL

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  • yogesh, mumbai

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    result of mallu lobby working overtime - such a tiny state and 4 intl airports already.Don't ask abt rly - it is their ancestral property. what our MP no.1 and other ministers doing...nidde?

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  • Shankar, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Similar to on arrival visas, this airport will house a branch of Kasaragod embassy where passports will be issued instantly prior to boarding.

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  • Harold, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    MAK
    you have rightly pointed Kerala is any time better in all respect and the ministers work for their state, not like Karnataka.
    Look at the Udupi road how many years still not complete Oscar has done nothing

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  • Aadil Khan, Kasaragod/Saudi Arabia

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    A day will come, not very far, for Mangaloreans to frequent Kannur Airport for taking direct flights to and from Europe and America.

    Hurling abuses on Keralites/Kasaragodians will have to be swallowed back.

    We are one, irrespective of religion, caste and creed.

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  • mak,

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    I was not surprised the way congress lost last lokha sabha election,we had leaders like Veerappa moily & Oscar Fernandis at helm of affair for ten years.They could have changed entire outlook of our district as we all know one decade to be in power is very long.These politicians did nothing,now iam sure they would regret as well as have all the time but no work.They are so free they are willing to be there for all the inauguration Function now.

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  • vishwa, mangalore/usa

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Kerala airport and mangalore airport has come up due to it people. Hubli, mysore or other part of karnataka are not come up because of them self. Where r the passengers there.

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  • G Z T Kunte, Udupi

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    The people who are Sitting in USA or Mangalore do not know the potential of North Karnataka. Some of the Mangaloreans have seen North Karnataka only in Maps thats all. There are just two flights to Hubli per day from Bengaluru and Mumbai, which go always full. The Cargo potential in Hubli is too high where as the Bajpe Cargo Terminal is always deserted. But the lethargy of Karnataka Govt and the politicians has failed to tap the potential of North Karnataka.

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  • Ramakrishna A K , Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Our Mangalore-Bajpe-Kenjar Airport is a Table-Top Airport, which means it is situated on a Hill top with steep valley at the borders of the Airport, and hence there is no sufficient place to expand this Kenjar-Bajpe Airport. When T A Pai was influential in Central Govt he had planned to shift this Airport to Padubidri so that sufficient plain land is available for big expansions in future. But this plan of T A Pai was scuttled by some vested interests. The cost of expansion of runway in Bajpe is three times that of expansion in any plain-land runway expansion.
    May-2010 accident of the flight which killed 154 people in Kenjar airport by over-shooting the runway and falling in the valley, could have been averted if this airport was on some plain land.

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  • Dinesh, Doha

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Our MP and MLA s just B..king while election time and people still believing and electing them. Since Oscar and Now his brother Nalin both are same just we are listening their fake promises. Instead of sending our karnataka MP and MLA s to foreign trip send them to Kerala. Shame on you guys..Stop fooling people...

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  • Ravi B Shenava, Mangaluru

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Even though our Belagavi & Hubballi are bigger cities than Kannur, still they do not have full fledged Airport. Belagavi Civilian Airport is also in the grip of Air Force and they are not allowing expansion of Belgaum Airport citing Security problem to Air Force.
    Not only there is sufficient air passenger traffic in these north Karnataka cities, but also due to fast expanding irrigation in Bijapur (Vijayapur), Bagalakot & Belgaum districts large quantity of fresh Agri-product Cargo is available for shipment to Gulf countries in these north karnataka Airports, but no one is trying to tap this potential. Hence all agri.products from north Karnataka are shipped to foreign countries through Goa or Maharashtra Airports.

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  • jithesh,

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    new gateway for Kasargod Gold Smugglers..!

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  • KRPrabhu, B'luru

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Mangaluru Intl Airport Customs officials will train Kannur counter part on gold smuggling through otte pu^!i/rectum tech methods!!!
    Dettol sales will take new heights in Kannur by then.....

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    We will now have to travel to Kannur to fly UK & USA. Kindly present our Politicians with Pink Chaddis ...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Our MP's are useless ...

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  • P. Shirish Kumar Hosabettu, Muscat, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    No development in Karnataka. Only giving Bhagya promises.
    Shame on Karnataka MLA's

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  • Don, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Great achievement 4 international airports and several local.

    Soon there will be so many Airports in Kerala upon landing most will walk home.

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  • Prajwal , Kudla

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Nice to hear, hoping at least from now will not here news about smuggling in mangalore airport. Definitely there will b less traffic and we can expect travel rates to be reduced as there are less travellers.

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  • Mohammed, Bajpe/Riyadh

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    I hope the notorious activities shift from our Mlore airport.

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  • Gurudath, M'lore/Mumbai

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    It is Calicut which will lose traffic. May be a marginal impact on Mangalore. Hopefully by then Mangalore airport will have better options. Hope they take up runway expansion soon (at least by 1000 ft).

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  • Paul Simon, Barkur/Doha- Qatar

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    This might damage the business of Mangalore Airport where a percentage of business comes from the passengers travelling from Kasargod and Kannur to other destinations including Bangalore and Mumbai.... Why the central government is wasting money by building airports within a very close distance... It was not required at this stage since Government could have invested the same money in other sectors

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  • Aubb, Kuwait

    Mon, Jul 20 2015


    Mangalore air port will not only lose traffic, and the Kannur people will get much cheaper flights, since their CM, ministers and lobby are active at the Central level.

    Good for nothing coastal MPs, MLAs are busy attending "sanmana samarambhas" since 3 years....!!

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  • ahamed, vidyanagar. kasaragod

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    Manglore airport will KHUMBAKARNA(sleep)

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  • David Sequeira, Koteshwar

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    Shame on the part of Karnataka and especially coastal so called very influential politicians. Hope they read this and sportively react

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  • P. Shirish Kumar Hosabettu, Muscat, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    Mr. David, Karnataka Ministers or Polititians don't know the meaning of shame. They are more interested in Press conference than development. And of course just for the sake of getting votes, this people giving all Bhagya facilities instead of creating job opportunities by developing the state.

    All party Politicians are same , just pointing fingers to each others. Some fools supporting them

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  • PREM, MUDUBELLE

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    THANK GOD..after 2016..no more gold..in mangalore airport..smugglers will divert to kannur airport

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  • Christopher DCunha, M'lore/AUH

    Tue, Jul 21 2015

    New X-ray Machine at the arrival lounge will go waste...!!

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    4th International airport in God's own country!

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  • KRPrabhu, B'luru

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    Hats off to Kerala ministers on this splendid achievement.Highly appriciated. Why Same enthusiasm could not be shown for setting up new projects in the state industires/creating job oppertunities in various fields,to stop migrating Malayalis to other states/overseas?

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  • Abdul kader, Kasragod,

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    kasaragodians use ixe airport, coz, 64 km Bajpe, cannanore nearly 134 km !!! we are use Bajpe airport.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    Thanks to our MP's, Mangaloreans wishing to fly Europe & USA will have to board flights from KANNUR ...

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  • ISMAIL K PERINJE, PERINJE

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    Congratulations to hard work Keralites who makes no stone un turned for the development of Kerala cutting party lines.Such tiny state has 3plus1 International Airports where as we have only one Intl Airport and a semi Intl Air port in Mangalore.Apart from Airport their railway network also not match with our state.All this made possible because of intelligent and handwork people of Kerala.Nalin Kumar did bring any tangible project or developmental project Mangalore be it in Airport or Railway but still he is number one MP in spending MP fund!!!

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  • Nazeer Mohammed, Bajpe

    Mon, Jul 20 2015

    This is called development. In Karnataka what we have, just communal violence. Let's Learn from these mallus.

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