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Chennai Greenfield Airport is a proposed greenfield airport project to serve the Chennai Metropolitan Area in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is planned to be built near Parandur in Kanchipuram district , and will serve as the secondary airport alongside the existing Chennai International Airport .
New Chennai Greenfield International Airport is a proposed greenfield airport project to serve the city of Chennai, India. It will be built near Parandur of Kanchipuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It will serve the city alongside the existing Chennai International Airport. The proposed airport will be spread around 5,000 acres.
The airport is expected to reach saturation by 2035, with a peak capacity of 40 million passengers; a new greenfield airport has been proposed to supplement it. The airport is served by the Chennai International Airport Metro Station of the Chennai Metro and the Tirusulam railway station of the Chennai Suburban Railway.
The airport was to be developed by the government of Andhra Pradesh under a public–private partnership (PPP) basis. [13] A pre-bid meeting was held in August 2018, for which 13 developers showed interest in developing this airport. The government finally approved the GMR Group, [14] which was also operating airports at New Delhi and Hyderabad.
The airport was to have a terminal area of 250,000 m 2 (2,700,000 sq ft) and a cargo area of 100,000 m 2 (1,100,000 sq ft) and planned to handle 50–55 million passengers annually. [20] The original estimated cost of the project was ₹ 47.66 billion (US$550 million). This has since quadrupled to ₹ 160 billion (US$1.8 billion). [15]
A greenfield airport is an aviation facility with greenfield project characteristics. The designation reflects certain environmental qualities (using previously undeveloped or empty greenfield land , for example) and commissioning, planning and construction processes that are generally carried out from scratch.
A new greenfield Chennai Airport is planned for Sriperumbudur. [9] [10] The Industrial corridor between Sriperumbudur and Oragadam is rapidly growing with apartment complexes by large developers such as KumarRaja Foundations, Arun Excello and Hiranandani.
The station is the only elevated airport metro station in India. The other airport metro stations in the country such as those in Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and the proposed ones at Bangalore and Hyderabad are underground. [2] The station enables rapid transit connectivity with the airport, making Chennai the second city in India after Delhi to ...