5 airports upgraded to international status

October 04, 2012 21:09

The government on Thursday decided to upgrade five airports -- Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Lucknow and Varanasi -- to the international level.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, at its meeting in New Delhi, approved a proposal for the upgradation of the five airports which have the required infrastructure in place like large terminal, immigration and customs facility to handle international operations.

"These airports already have infrastructure like immigration and customs to handle the international operations. In fact some of them already do have some international flights. With this (decision) we expect that these airports will be able to attract more international flights and travellers," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said after the CCEA meeting.

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