Modernisation of non-metro airports to be completed in 2 years

TIRUCHIRAPALLI: Expansion and modernisation work on 35 non-metro airports in the country is on schedule and would be completed in two years, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said here today.

"Everything is on schedule. Progress is there and we will complete it in two years," he told reporters at the airport here during his brief halt on his return from Tirunallar, famous for the Lord Saneeswaran temple.

The non-metro airports included two in Tamil Nadu- Madurai and Coimbatore, he said.

Patel said the economic recession has resulted in a 30 per cent decline in passenger traffic, but in the last one or two months, "it is improving and returning to normal.