Phase 1
The Vision
Around the world, airports have been expanding their facilities to include retail outlets, office spaces and other commercial developments. Encompassing all these non-aviation facilities and more, the new Bengaluru International Airport aims at setting a benchmark for the development of future airports in India.
The Master Plan
The master plan ensures that the size and capacity of the airport's facilities is in line with passenger traffic forecast and projected cargo growth. The facilities include runways, taxiways, apron, passenger terminal building, fuel farm, airport fire service, aircraft maintenance facilities, access roads, car parking, control tower/technical building, maintenance/GSE workshop and administrative building/security.
The master plan is prepared in line with current ICAO standards and recommendations, IATA guidelines and AAI requirements.
Phased development
The airport development master plan has been staggered across several phases. The initial phase was completed in March 2008.
The existing airport features
The passenger terminal for both domestic as well as international passengers, a runway of four thousand meters length, three rapid exits and a taxiway system, forty two aircraft stands and eight passenger boarding bridges including one double arm aerobridge, a four lane main access road, the central access road, a secondary access road and an airside service road, approximately two thousand car parks, various auxiliary buildings, a fuel farm, two major general cargo warehouses and flight kitchens. The aviation infrastructure will be constantly expanded in line with the growth of the traffic figures.
On a footprint of eight acres of land, the terminal building is spread over 71,000- sq mts and built to comply with the peak hour demand of approximately 3000 passengers in peak hour, a figure it rarely touches presently. It is well equipped to handle the increasing traffic volume for the next few years. Phase-One, which includes the three-level Terminal Building at Bengaluru International Airport, brings considerable respite to the average passenger through elimination of long queues and archaic dual check in processes.
