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India Pursue Big Ten

KOMPAS.com - Through the development of the international terminal at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), India to pursue the position of world's top ten airports. "Our Ambition is to become one of the ten best airports of the world," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday as news Bernama (07/03/2010) when launching the construction of such terminals.

Until now, the IGI is the world's top 21 positions. This ranking jumped from 101st position in 2007. Construction of which cost up to 2.6 billion U.S. dollars it would bermodelkan government-private partnership in the ownership and management.

The composition of stock ownership through the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) is the Airport Authority of India (26 percent), Fraport, a German foreign investment (10 percent), and Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd (10 percent). Meanwhile, owners of a majority of capital is the GMR. Private companies in infrastructure based in Bangalore, India.

Later, this international terminal will have 78 garbarata (special bridge to serve the passengers entered the plane from an airport lounge building) and along the 1.2 kilometer runway. This terminal will be completed 37 months of development since this time.