Vadodara’s new airport terminal building’s ground breaking ceremony was held today. The new integrated terminal building will have an area of 18,120 square meter and will be a glass and steel structure(no brick anywhere). The new building will have modern passenger friendly facilities such as central air conditioning system, inline X-ray baggage inspection system integrated with the baggage conveyor system, escalators, public address system, flight information display system, CCTV for surveillance, check in counters with common use terminal equipment, car parking etc. The integrated terminal building will have peak hour passenger handling capacity of 700 passengers and annual handling capacity of 7.30 lakhs. According to Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel the construction of the new terminal will be completed in 18 months. Here are some of the photographs that show how the building would look after completion.

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