Kamaraj Terminal is the domestic terminal and Anna Terminal is the International Terminal while the other is a Cargo Terminal.
Kamaraj Terminal handles the domestic flights while Anna Terminal deals with the international flights. The old terminal of Chennai Airport is now used as the Cargo Terminal. The domestic and the international terminals are linked by a building.
The linking building between the international and the domestic terminal of Chennai Airport houses not only the the administrative offices, but also a restaurant serving mouthwatering food items. The different parts of this building have been built in different periods in the past. The most important information about Chennai International Airport is that it is the first airport in the country to have been certified a ISO 9001:2000 in the year of 2001. The services of the domestic and international airlines are efficient enough to draw appreciation from the passengers. The domestic terminal in the International Airport in Chennai was found to be handling nearly 5.9 million passengers in 2006-07.
Some of the domestic airlines operating in Chennai Airport are Air, Deccan, Alliance Air, Go Air, Indian, IndiGo Airlines, Jet Airways, JetLite, Kingfisher Airlines, Paramount Airways, SpiceJet and Jagson Airlines. All of these airlines operate flights within the country of India. The AAI is now pondering over constructing a new domestic terminal in order to lessen the load that the present domestic terminal has to bear in present.
The list of the international airlines, operating in Chennai Airport is a long one. The efficient airlines operate flights to almost all parts of the rest of the world. Some of the international airlines that are in operation in Chennai Airport are Air Arabia, Air France, Air India, Air India Express, Air Mauritius, All Nippon Airways, British Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Gulf Air, Indian, Jet Airways, JetLite, Kuwait Airways, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Singapur Airlines, SriLankan Airlines, Thai Airways International, Nok Air and Tiger Airways.
|
