Chennai airport will stop allowing visitors soon
Posted on: 02/Jul/2013 2:50:45 PM
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has announced that the Chennai airport will stop allowing visitors soon. They have said that security is the reason behind this decision. The Authority stands to lose around Rs. 50 lakhs that come in as visitors’ entry fee.
‘Visitors will not be let inside the new international terminal, which might be thrown open for use shortly. It will probably operate alongside the old international terminal for a couple of months. Of the nearly Rs. 50 lakh that we used to get, 20 per cent is lost since visitors’ entry in the domestic terminal was barred; the remaining 80 percent will also be lost once the new international terminal is fully operationalised. The number of visitors to the airport has come down over the years. Hardly anyone comes to see off domestic passengers. It is only the international terminal that draws quite a bit of crowd during the nights. One of the reasons for prohibiting the visitors is to enhance security in the terminal. Some people who see off the passengers loiter in the airport and cause nuisance sometimes’, said an AAI official.
