First Flight Lands At Manohar Worldwide Airport In Goa

Panaji:

The primary passenger flight arrived on the Manohar Worldwide Airport in Goa from Hyderabad on Thursday, marking the graduation of operations on the new facility within the coastal state.

The IndiGo flight from Hyderabad landed at 9 am on the new airport situated at Mopa in North Goa district, airport officers mentioned.

Union Minister Shripad Naik and Goa Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte have been current to welcome the passengers on the terminal constructing of the airport.

Mr Naik and Mr Khaunte additionally introduced symbolic dummy boarding passes to passengers scheduled to journey to Hyderabad in one other IndiGo flight, the primary one to take off from the brand new airport in Goa on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the primary part of the brand new airport on December 11, 2022.

The airport has been named after late Manohar Parrikar, the previous defence minister who had additionally served because the chief minister of Goa.

With Mopa, Goa has bought one other worldwide airport which is situated 50 km other than the south Goa-based Dabolim facility, operated as a civil enclave within the Indian Navy’s air station INS Hansa.

The primary part of the Rs 2,870 crore Mopa airport mission will cater to round 44 lakh passengers every year, which may be expanded to a saturation capability of 33 MPPA, an official earlier mentioned.

The airport has been constructed on the theme of sustainable infrastructure and has a solar energy plant, inexperienced buildings, LED lights on the runway, rainwater harvesting, state-of-the-art sewage remedy plant with recycling amenities, amongst different such amenities.

It has adopted a few of the best-in-class applied sciences like 3-D Monolithic Precast buildings, StabilRoad, Robomatic Hole precast partitions, and 5G appropriate IT infrastructure. PTI RPS GK GK