The board of Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) will consider a proposal to build a ?low-cost terminal? at the new international airport at Devanahalli, BIAL chief executive Albert Brunner said. BIAL, which is the builders? consortium for the Rs 2,530-crore project, also plans to consider proposals for a second run-way and terminal in its July board meeting.
Brunner said the low-cost terminal, at the airport with an annual capacity for 12 million passengers, was being proposed to serve the low-cost airlines, such as Air Deccan and Spicejet. One-third of the passengers at Bengaluru International Airport flew low-cost carriers. According to BIAL, a low-cost terminal, which could be built by December 2009, was expected to decongest the airport that opened in May 2008. ?It is one of the most promising solutions, because it can be realised fast and take a portion of passengers,? Brunner said at a meeting with the Aeronautical Society of India. BIAL had earlier said the second phase of expansion at the airport would cost over Rs 2500 crore. Traffic estimates were that the airport would require to handle 18 million passengers by 2011.
BIAL which will runs the city?s new airport on a BOT mode for 30 years, is a JV of the Karnataka government and the Airports Authority of India, with Siemens Projects Ventures, Larsen and Toubro and Unique Zurich Airport.