Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) in a meeting approved upgradation of 5 airports to the International level on Thursday.
These 5 airports are:
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said, "These airports already have infrastructure like immigration and customs to handle the international operations. In fact some of them already do have some international flights. With this (decision) we expect that these airports will be able to attract more international flights and travelers".
They require infrastructure in place like large terminal, immigration and customs facility to handle international operations.
An international airport is one that can accommodate international flights, that requires separate layers for immigrations and customs including high-end facilities at the terminal like aerobridges and mandatory runway length to accommodate jets.
Currently, all of the five airports are servicing at least one international operation.
(with inputs from IANS)
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