Click to play videoHyderabad: The first aircraft landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad without any trouble on Tuesday evening.
Built at a cost of Rs 2,500 crore, the 5,500-acre sprawling airport complex has all modern facilities. But to get there, travellers will have to undertake a 25-kilometre journey on bad roads.
While Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel promised affordable air travel, they made no allusion to connecting roads.
“I am speaking with the concerned authorities, to reduce the air turbine fuel charges from 33.4 per cent to four per cent,” Reddy said.
The new airport to be opened on March 16 is equipped with a 70-meter high Air Traffic Control Tower, 4,260-metre-long runway - India's longest, capable of handling the world's largest aircraft the Airbus A380, a seven-storey passenger terminal, 42 parking bays, 60 check-in counters, a business hotel with 308 rooms and shopping outlets
While celebrities and guests have been quick to pay a fleeting visit, the airport employees aren’t happy. They say they are being meted out step-motherly treatment.
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