Tamil Nadu proposes a new airport at Tambaram

The Hindu : Front Page: "Tamil Nadu has sought the technical expertise of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for setting up a new international airport on a 2,000-acre site off Tambaram in Chennai. The AIT is now being served by 16 international carriers including the two national carriers. Delta Airlines of the United States will start its direct operations out of Chennai from May 11.

The Kamaraj Domestic Terminal now handles 5.05 lakh passengers. With several new entrants such as Kingfisher, Royal Airlines, Go and SpiceJet set to launch their operations and Air Deccan planning expansion, the existing terminal may be inadequate to cope with the traffic.

Austrian Airlines also expressed a keen interest in starting services to Chennai.

The Prime Minister has accorded in principle approval to the Civil Aviation Ministry to initiate modernisation of the Chennai airport on a par with the New Delhi and Mumbai airports and to take up expansion of the Madurai, Tiruchi and Coimbatore airports. "