Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport handles 190,000 passengers in first ten days of operations

Hyderabad: GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) has announced the successful completion of the first ten days of commercial operations at its greenfield Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA).
 
In the course of these ten eventful days GHIAL said that it has handled around 190,000 passengers, consisting of 30,000 international and 160,000 domestic passengers. The airport has also recorded 2448 Air Traffic Movements - landings and take offs - during this period.

GHIAL also said that representatives of British Airways visited the airport and expressed their happiness with the infrastructure and other facilities available at the airport. British Airways has announced that it will commence Hyderabad – London operations with Boeing777 aircraft from 27 October 2008, operating five frequencies a week. The aircraft will be configured for 274 seats in Business and Economy classes.

GMR-HIAL is a joint venture company promoted by GMR Infrastructure Ltd., (63%); Malaysian Airports Holding Berhad (11%), Airports Authority of India (13%) and Government of Andhra Pradesh (13%), with a mandate to develop a world-class international grade airport spread over 5,500 acres in Shamshabad, about 25 kms from the main city of Hyderabad.

The RGIA is designed to handle 12 million passengers per annum with a total project cost of Rs2478 crore in the first phase which has now been commissioned.