TOf this, the domestic terminal comprises 2000 square metres and there is an international terminal that comprises of 1000 square metres. The remaining space is for other service areas.
The domestic terminal of Goa Airport is designed to process 350 arrivals and departures simultaneously. The international terminal is meant for 250 passengers. There are 250 paramilitary personnel stationed at the airport for security purposes. There is provision for parking 84 cars and 8 buses. Twelve airlines compete in the domestic market. Dabolim is connected to only about 8 or 9 Indian airports. The airlines that operate from Goa Airport are:
- Air India Express (Kochi)
- Air Sahara (Delhi, Mumbai)
- Air Deccan (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai)
- GoAir (Mumbai)
- Indian (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calicut, Chennai, Delhi, Kochi, Mumbai, Pune)
- Jet Airways (Bangalore, Mumbai)
- Spicejet (Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Mumbai, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram)
- IndiGo Airlines (Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai)
Dabolim's scheduled international flights are irregular.
- Arkefly (Amsterdam-Schiphol)
- Condor Airlines (Frankfurt)
- Novair (Stockholm-Arlanda, Oslo-Gardermoen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter)
- Air India Express (Dubai)
- Belair (Zurich)
- Indian (Sharjah)
- MyTravel Airways (Manchester, London-Gatwick)
- Air India (Kuwait)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Tiger Airways (Singapore)
- SriLankan Airlines (Colombo)
Foreign carriers were not allowed from operating scheduled flights to and from Goa. But now some carriers have obtained permission to operate scheduled services. SriLankan Airlines operates Airbus A320s twice a week. Charter airlines operating from Goa Airport such as XL Airways, Novair, Arkefly, and Monarch Airlines operate to Goa on a seasonal basis. Charter flights are available to and from the United Kingdom, Europe, and Russia. Charter airlines carrying international tourists during the season tend to use the bleaker civil aviation regimes on weekends. By 2005, total passengers had increased to 987,690, 1944 domestic plus 762 international passengers per day. The figure for 2004-05 was placed at nearly 1.3 million giving a daily average of 3467.
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