Mundra SEZ airport to start commercial flights

MUMBAI: Adani Group-promoted Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is all set to start commercial flights in to its airport by mid-2008.

The group is also looking for partners to develop maintenance and repair facilities at the airport and also provide for aircraft parking in the long run.

The port is in talks with all the leading domestic airlines to start commercial flights by June this year, although the company didn’t specify any one company.

Sandeep Mehta, chief executive officer, Mundra Port, said: “To develop Mundra as an industrial port, we require good air connectivity. We are ensuring commercial flights and are in discussions with many airlines.”

The airport will be privately run following the government’s new Private Airport Policy, which is expected in two months. The airport’s 1900m-long airstrip, extended to 2.2 km recently, has been handling executive jets. The company is confident to justify the passenger traffic to the airport owing to the trade activities and the power projects coming up in the region.

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