About Chennai Airport

Chennai International Airport (IATA: MAA, ICAO: VOMM) is the primary airport serving the South Indian metropolis of Chennai. The airport is spread across the suburban areas of Meenambakkam, Pallavaram and Tirusulam. For the Fiscal year 2014-15, It is the fourth busiest airport in India in terms of passenger traffic for the year 2014 after Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, and the third busiest (after Delhi, Mumbai Airport) in terms of international traffic and cargo handling. In 2014-15, the airport handled 14.29 million passengers and about 342 aircraft movements per day. The airport is expected to reach saturation by 2016 - 17, necessitating the construction of a second airport.

The domestic and the international terminals are named after former chief ministers of Tamil Nadu K. Kamaraj and C. N. Annadurai respectively. It is the first airport in India to have international and domestic terminals located adjacent to each other.
Chennai International Airport Location Map

The airport serves as the regional headquarters of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the southern region of India comprising the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Karnataka, and Kerala and the union territories of Puducherry and Lakshadweep.

About 10 domestic airlines and 28 international airlines connect to the airport. The airport serves as the main hub for SpiceJet, Jet Airways, Air Costa, Blue Dart Aviation and as a secondary hub for Air India. It also serves as focus city for GoAir and IndiGo. Blue Dart Aviation is an all-cargo airline based in Chennai International Airport. It operates scheduled night express cargo flights including domestic and regional charters.

The current development projects include construction of a new domestic terminal and expansion of the current international terminal. The design is a collaborative effort of team lead involving Frederic Schwartz Architects, Gensler, and led by New Delhi-based Creative Group. Creative Group is the principal architect for the project providing comprehensive architecture and engineering consultancy for the design of the passengers terminal buildings, parking garage structures and access roadway access system.

The proposed design, based on Gensler's Terminal 2015 concept, will be connected with the existing terminal design elements. It was earlier reported that the new terminal buildings will have a handling capacity of 10 million passengers and when integrated with existing terminals will provide for a handling capacity of 23 million passengers a year. The new terminal buildings are expected to have an area of about 1,40,000 m² with 104 check-in counters, 16 aerobridge and 60 immigration counters and the two runways would be interconnected by a network of taxiways.

The terminal complex have a flyover travelator connecting the domestic and international terminals for a distance of about 1 km.

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