International Terminal in Madurai Airport Function: A Recap

The Tamil Nadu government had given administrative sanction to acquire 614.33 acres of land to expand the Madurai airport, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said, laying the foundation stone for a terminal building here on Saturday.

By March 2009, we would have the first international flight from this new terminal, he added. - Bureau Report

Chief minister M Karunanidhi on Saturday April 26th 2008 laid the foundation stone for a new integrated terminal building at the Madurai airport, a facility that would handle 500 passengers at a time.

Airport officials said the integrated terminal building would be ready by March 2009. Constructed at a cost of Rs 130 crore, it would have state-of-the-art facilities and amenities, including aerobridges, flight information display system and centralised air-conditioning.

The present terminal has the capacity to handle only 200 passengers.

Karunanidhi said all airports in the state would be pieces of architectural excellence and match world class airports.

Karunanidhi also laid the foundation stones for IT parks developed by Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu at Ilandaikulam and Vadapalanji in Madurai.

Madurai Airport Design: Madurai Airport Expansion

Sponsored by Sun City - Real Estate Agent, Madurai

The New airport in Madurai is going to be a 17,536-square metre building, to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 88 crore. It will have advanced features. The new facility has been designed to cater to 500 passengers. It has been proposed to have four aero-bridges, though initially only two will come up. Seven glass passenger lifts, five escalators and online baggage handling systems would make it a world class airport

This is designed by Mott Macdonald, the firm which also designed the New Delhi airport and they are experts in providing designs for private and public sector infrastructures worldwide.

Here are a few pictures, which I got by email.










Sourced from forwarded emails - Not Validated for truth!
Chronicles of Madurai

Official and Latest News on Madurai IT Park: Madurai Tidel Park: Madurai Airport - Foundation Stone for New Terminal Building in Madurai Airport

Official and Latest News on Madurai IT Park: Madurai Tidel Park: Madurai Airport - Foundation Stone for New Terminal Building in Madurai Airport

Sponsored by Sun City - Real Estate Agent, Madurai

On the evening of 26th of April, Chief Minister Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi is laying a foundation for three important things -

1) Airport Expansion to International Terms - New Terminal Foundation.
2) Madurai Tidel Park in Madurai North - near Mattuthavani
3) Madurai IT Park in Madurai South

This function is scheduled to happen this weekend on 26th of April in the Madurai Airport.

We are very glad about the whole news and it is going to change everything in Madurai to a very new positive level.

Tamil Nadu (CM) Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will lay the foundation stone for a new Integrated Terminal Building at Madurai Airport on April 26.

Official sources said as part of the modernization of the Madurai Airport, the Integrated Terminal Building which could handle 500 passengers at a time would come up.

Mr Karunanidhi will also lay the foundation stones for the much awaited Madurai North Ilandhaikulam Information Technology Park and Madurai South Vadapalanji Information Technology Park at a function to be held at the Madurai Airport on the same day.

Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu and Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel would also participate, the news sources added.

New Airlines in Madurai - Air Dravida - New Airlines/Flight Investment in Madurai

New Airlines in Madurai - Air Dravida - New Airlines/Flight Investment in Madurai

Air Dravida to be set up with an initial investment of Rs 110 crore would start three flights in Chennai-Madurai sector from July end, its Executive Director Ramachandran Iyer told newspersons here last night.

He said while Rs 40 crore of the initial investment would be infused by the company promoters, the remaining Rs 70 crore would be raised through debts and private equity routes.

The airliner, a division of Premier Tours and Travels (Chennai) Pvt Ltd, within two months of its operations would add two more flights to expand its service in South India.

It is going to be 50 seater Bombardier aircraft from Chennai to Madurai.

Sourcing from Economic Times

Nearest international airport to Madurai currently: Situation would change with Madurai International Airport

Madras International Airport (Airport Code: MAA) is situated at Tirisulam, 7 Km south of Chennai. It has two terminals, Kamaraj Terminal, handles domestic flights connecting 20 destinations across the country with Chennai.

The International Terminal, named Anna Terminal, connects major destinations like London, Frankfurt, Dubai, Muscat, Bahrain, Dhahran, Jeddah, Singapore, Kuala Lampur and Sri Lanka.

Besides AIR INDIA and INDIAN AIRLINES several International carriers viz. BRITISH AIRWAYS, LUFTHANSA, SINGAPORE AIRLINES, MALAYSIAN AIRLINES, AIR LANKA, OMAN AIR, GULF AIR and SAUDIA AIRLINES are operating flights to and from Chennai.

This is the existing situation, but situation would change with an international airport in Madurai itself. Waiting for that day to come...- Madurai Machan!

International Flight by June in Madurai: Madurai Airport

Madurai Airport to have an international flight by June

In a recent CII meeting, Dindigul MP NSV Chitthan had said that there will be an international flight from/to Madurai to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Gulf Countries, Sri Lanka, South East Asia etc.,

Speaking at a function organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Madurai Zone, to formally present the report on ‘Traffic potential at Madurai airport’, here, on Wednesday, Chitthan said that the Union Minister for Civil Aviation had given him an assurance on the operation of an international flight from Madurai by June when he represented the demand of the people in southern districts of Tamil Nadu to him.

Speaking on the occasion, T Kannan, former chairman, CII (Southern Region), underscored the importance to focus on second-tier cities to boost economic growth. Expressing concern over the absence of economic boom in the southern region of the State, Kannan said Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai to a certain extent, were benefited by the boom that was sweeping the world while it was yet to reach other cities.

Please read more at new ind press

Madurai Airport

If you are wondering about Madurai Airport and Madurai flight details, here are some details about the current status of flights inbound and outbound in Madurai.

Paramount Airways Madurai

Madurai to Chennai

Paramount Airways has 4 daily flights from Madurai to Chennai, for a total of 300 seats daily.

Air Deccan Airways Madurai

Madurai to Chennai

Air Deccan has 2 daily flights from Madurai to Chennai, for a total of 226 seats daily.

Madurai to Bangalore

Air Deccan has 1 daily flights from Madurai to Bangalore, for a total of 46 seats daily.

Indian Airlines Madurai India

Madurai to Chennai

Indian Airlines has 1 daily flights from Madurai to Chennai, for a total of 145 seats daily.

Jet Airways, Madurai India

Madurai to Chennai

Jet Airways India has 2 daily flights from Madurai to Chennai, for a total of 144 seats daily.

The on-time percentage for these flights is 83%.

Madurai Airport Expansion to international standards

The Madurai district collector S.S.Jawahar is in talks to make Madurai airport to an international standard by expanding the area of the airport and the runway. This is being achieved by purchasing 100 acres of poromboke land.

Read more in The Hindu

Madurai Directory

Madurai IT park News and Updates - Top IT companies to land in Madurai

The top 10 Information Technology Companies in India would participate in the "Madurai.com IT Event" to be held here in July, the new District Collector T. Udhayachandran said.

Talking to press, the Collector, who assumed charged today, said "Madurai.Com would be eye opener, and Madurai will find its due place in the IT Map of India. "Udhayachandran was earlier Director of ELCOT (Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu).

"First we need to setup an IT park, I have already taken action in this regard as the MD of ELCOT.The park would require 40 acres of Land. Even if the Major IT players, like Tata Consultancy Services wanted land in Madurai ,we could help them by acquiring land from the Private owners." The immediate plan was to set up an IT Park to enable IT companies put up their IT units. Ongoing infrastructure projects and drinking water schemes would be expedited.

In other hand, Union IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran said that efforts to develop IT corridors in tier-two cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchrapalli and Tirunelveli were also taken and as part of it he had spoken to Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel to develop the existing airports.

Minister said that he would be going to South Korea in the middle of June to hold talks with IT and other companies to ask them to start their business in India.

Minister said that as the new government in Tamilnadu was friendly with the Union government suitable ambience would be created to attract more and more investmens towards the State. 'Both the Central and State Governments are planing to increase employment opportunities through the IT sector and also planning to attract more IT companies into Tamilnadu,' he added.

Madurai News April 19th 2006

Election News:

173 nominations have been received for the 10 constituencies in Madurai District, District Collector D. Raajendiran said today. The last day for withdrawal is April 24. He told newsmen here that Election observers for all the 10 constituencies had been named. Out of 15,32,230 voters, 75 per cent had been given Electors' photo Identity Card. 100 per cent coverage is expected before this month end.
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Heavy Rains in Madurai
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DMDK-DPI workers clash in Madurai
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DMK candidate's assurance to voters
Madurai, Apr 19: Former Speaker P.T.R.Palanivel Rajan, contesting from the Madurai Central constituency, today assured that an IT park would be established in this city if he was elected.

Palanivel Rajan played a major role in the development of the city during his tenure as Speaker in the DMK regime of 1996-01.

Talking to newsmen here,Palanivelrajan said a recent survey had revealed that most of the employees of the IT firms across the country and abroad were from Madurai.The city would prosper if they worked here,he said.

He also assured that he would take up his pet project of establishing an All India Medical Research Centre in this city and modernise and expand the city airport.

Promising to lay a world class road around the Meenakshi temple,and approach roads to the main Church and Mosque in the city,he said he would also take steps to expedite the Ellis Nagar and KoodalNagar bridge work for which money was sanctioned during the DMK period.

He assured that the two main channels running across the city,would be cleaned.


Tamil Nadu
Chennai: Madras (obsolete)
Dharmapuri: Dharampuri
Dindigul: Dindigul Anna, Quaid-E-Milleth
Erode: Periyar, Perivar (obsolete)
Kancheepuram: Kanchipuram
Kanyakumari: Kannyakumari, Kanniyakumari
Karur: Kapur
Madurai: Madura, Mathurai
Nagapattinam: Nagappattinam
Nilgiris: The Nilgiris, Nilgiri, Uthagamandalam, Nilagiri
Perambalur: Perambadur
Pudukkottai: Pudukottai
Ramanathapuram: Ramananthapuram, Rameswaram, Ramnad
Sivaganga: Sivagangai, Pasumpon Thevar Thirumagan, Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar
Thanjavur: Tanjavur, Tanjore
Theni: Teni
Thiruvallur: Tiruvallur
Thoothukudi: Chidambaranar, Thoothukkudi, Toothukudi, Tuticorin
Tiruchirappalli: Trichirappalli, Tiruchchirappalli, Trichy, Thiruchirapalli, Trichinopoly
Tirunelveli: Thirunelveli, Nellai Kattabomman, Tirunelveli Kattabomman, Palayankottai, Tinnevelly, Tirunalveli
Tiruvannamalai: Thiruvannamalai, Thiruvanamalai, Tiruvanamalai, Tiruvannamalai Sambuvarayar
Vellore: Ambedkar, North Arcot Ambedkar (obsolete)
Villupuram: Viluppuram
Virudhunagar: Kamarajar (obsolete); Virudunagar, Virdhunagar

Fly to Madurai by Paramount

Paramount Airways, promoted by Paramount group, a textile manufacturer based in Madurai, has added yet another jewel to its crown, by adding the Chennai- Madurai route starting from today.

Governor Surjith Singh Barnala inaugurated the check-in and later flagged off the flight from Madurai airport at 7 pm. Lakshmi Murugesan, chairperson, Paramount Airways welcomed the gathering followed by a presentation of the airline by M Thiagarajan, managing director, Paramount Airways.

The MD said, 'Starting today we would like to announce an all time 50 per cent to the physically challenged people. Paramount will also be launching the web check in facility from today and we are the second airlines in the country to offer this facility.

International Airport Facility in Madurai

I have to write about this...
It is a great news that International flight operations from Madurai airport would begin in June 2006. We are very very happy about this fact. Business and Commerce in Madurai will improve to a great extent.

Looks like approval is enough for this particular process. International Airport Infrastructure seem to be already there in Madurai.

Just wait and see!!