Visakhapatnam Airport Creates Helipads For 18 Special Aircraft As Delegates Set To Land For Global Investors Summit

There will be 31 commercial flights arriving and departing in addition to the chartered flights for the summit

The airport can accommodate ten planes per hour on the two days of the summit.

Source : ABP Desam

The Andhra Pradesh government is expecting several industrialists to take part in the Global Investors Summit (GIS) which is scheduled to be on March 3 and 4. The Visakhapatnam International Airport has created the space for landing 18 special aircraft for Summit. Three helipads have been set up on the grounds of the Andhra University Engineering College, where the summit will take place, to airlift the delegates from the airport.

Reliance Industries Limited, GMR Group, Jindal Steel and Power, Apollo, among others, have already requested permission for the landing and takeoff of chartered flights at the airport.

There will be 31 commercial flights arriving and departing in addition to the chartered flights for the summit. The airport can accommodate 10 planes per hour on the two days of the summit. There are 16 parking spaces total, with 12 in the new apron and 4 in the old apron.

The Indian Navy is in charge of the airport's 1,100-foot runway and air traffic control. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) supervises other amenities, including parking, to enable passenger boarding and exiting. However, as a precautionary measure, Vizag Airport will keep space for emergency landings of flights in case of any trouble. The airport can handle 240 arrivals and departures over 24 hours at a rate of 10 movements per hour.

Among the top industrialists, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, Karan Adani, Chief Executive Officer of Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd., Kumara Mangalam Birla, Chairman Aditya Birla Group, Aditya Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal, Sajjan Jindal, Managing Director of JSW Steel, Navin Jindal, Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power, Cyrill Gutsch, Founder and CEO of Parley for the Oceans, Arjun Oberoi, Executive Chairman of the Oberoi group, Sajjan Bhajanka, Chairman of Century Plyboards, and Krishna Ella, Founder and Executive Chairman of Bharat Biotech, are those expected at GIS.

Some of the participating delegates are scheduled to speak during the morning session on the first day of the Summit. This will be followed by the signing of MoUs. Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy is scheduled to interact with the industrialists.

Several cultural programmes and entertainment were arranged for the participants at the GIS. A range of MoUs is expected to be signed on the second day of the Global Investors Summit.

(With inputs from ABP Desam — It is a Telugu platform of ABP News. For more news, commentary and latest happenings from two Telugu states, follow https://telugu.abplive.com/)