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Amritsar Airport also known as Amritsar International Airport is more popularly known as Raja Sansi International Airport . The airport is located 11 kilometers north-west of the city of Amritsar, India. It is located near the village of Raja Sansi on Amritsar-Ajnala road. It serves not only the city of Amritsar but also the greater Punjab area that also includes the city of Jalandhar. The present Amritsar Airport handles 75 commercial flights per week that includes both domestic and international flights. Amritsar Airport is a government designated international airport. The city of Amritsar has been the cultural and tourist capital of Punjab, and the demand for a fully operational international airport has accumulated in recent years. A newly finished arrivals terminal was inaugurated in September of 2005, and a finished departures terminal has been operational since March 2006.
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Given below is a list of different international flights operating from Amritsar Airport :
- Air India Express (Dubai)
- Air India (Birmingham, London-Heathrow, New York-JFK, Toronto-Pearson)
- Turkmenistan Airlines (Ashgabat)
- Indian (Airlines) (Sharjah)
- Air Slovakia (Bratislava)
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Jet Airways (London-Heathrow)
Amritsar Raja Sansi Airport (ATQ) or Amritsar Airport has now begun Phase II of its development. These developments include the following measures:
- Passenger terminal building size to be doubled to 41,000 square metres.
- The proposed site for the Permanent Perishable Cargo Centre is located close to the air cargo complex, which has a capacity for 200 tonnes per day
- A brand new cargo handling facility due to demands from exporters in Haryana, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh, who have no other aiorport apart from Delhi which is far too far away.
- Four more parking bays to be added by 2008.
- A new spacious car park for passengers and visitors
- Four new air and jet bridges to be installed for the convenience of passengers.
Air India has successfully started its Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flights that operate from Amritsar Airport. The airline has upgraded the service from the current 5 weekly flights to daily in 2008. Traffic through Amritsar Airport is clearly growing rapidly and this is perhaps no surprise considering that more than 26 per cent of all passengers flying from Indira Gandhi International Airport of Delhi are now operating from Punjab. The airport has now embarked upon a greater expansion plan for flights. The flight sthat it intend to cover are:
- Air India - (San Francisco & Vancouver
- AirAsia X - (Kuala Lumpur)
- Aeroflot - (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Austrian Airlines - (Vienna)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Thai Airways International - (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- Egypt Air- (Cairo)
- Jet Airways (Srinagar)
- British Airways - (London Heathrow)
- Lufthansa - (Frankfurt)
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