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  • Fire erupts on cargo flight landing at Chennai airport, none injured

    The pilots alerted the officials after the fire erupted in the fourth engine of the cargo flight during landing in Chennai.

  • DGCA probes tail strike incident involving IndiGo plane at Chennai airport

    IndiGo on Sunday said an Airbus A321 aircraft tail touched the runway during landing at Chennai airport

  • A 27-year-old plan for a new international airport in Chennai is struggling to take off

    In 1998, under the then Chief Minister M Karunanidhi the state government decided on a land south of the current airport in Meenambakkam and it was considered to be executed on Build-Own-Operate and Transfer (BOOT) concept

  • Chennai’s airport gamble: Can Parandur help it catch up with Bengaluru?

    In recent decades, Bengaluru surged ahead due to its state-of-the-art airport infrastructure. Chennai was left struggling to keep pace.

  • Aircraft suffers tyre burst at Chennai airport; passengers safe

    The flight had just landed when one of the rear tyres burst, Chennai airport authorities said.

  • 'Inflation is higher in West Bengal than in Tamil Nadu': P Chidambaram on tea for Rs 340 at Kolkata airport

    P Chidambaram, who has frequently voiced his concerns about inflation, used the post to subtly highlight the disparity in pricing between states, noting the apparent difference in inflation between Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

  • YouTuber set up souvenir shop at Chennai airport to smuggle gold worth Rs 167 crore, arrested

    The accused runs a YouTube channel named ShoppingBoyz, allegedly used the shop to smuggle an astonishing 267 kg of gold, valued at Rs 167 crore, over just two months.

  • 33 flights diverted from Chennai to Bengaluru due to cyclone Michaung impact

    According to officials of Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) that operates KIA, both domestic as well as international flights including that of Indigo, SpiceJet, Etihad, Lufthansa and Gulf Air were diverted to the city from Chennai, where many flights have also been cancelled.

  • Cyclone Michaung: Visuals of flooded Chennai airport go viral, 70 flights cancelled

    Pictures and clips going viral on X showed Madras International Meenambakkam Airport flooded with ankle-deep water on the runways. The Chennai airport operations were suspended from 9.40 am to 11.40 am. A post by the official handle of Chennai airport stated that no flights will be operational till 11 pm today due to severe weather conditions.

  • Cyclone Michaung: Chennai airport shut for 2 hours, flights diverted to Bengaluru

    The India Meteorological Department has warned of heavy rain and thunderstorms on December 4 in various areas of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry due to the impact of the cyclone

  • Woman arrested in Chennai airport for carrying 22 snakes in bag. Video

    The snakes were stored in many plastic containers in her check-in luggage. Additionally, a chameleon was also seized from her baggage.

  • PM Modi inaugurates new terminal of Chennai International Airport

    PM Narendra Modi inaugurates the new terminal of Chennai International Airport

  • PM Modi to inaugurate slew of developmental projects in Tamil Nadu on April 8

    Following his arrival, PM Modi will open the new terminal of Chennai aiport, the first phase of which has been completed.

  • Chennai International Airport suspends arrivals amid heavy rains

    Despite the rains, Chennai International Airport will continue departures as scheduled.

  • Chennai airport's new terminal to be commissioned by 2022-end: Airports Authority of India

    The new terminal will have a total area of 2,18,000 sqm and function as one large integrated terminal for international and domestic operations, the AAI said.

  • Belgaum-Mysore TruJet flight makes emergency landing at Chennai airport, passengers safe

    With the plane getting stuck on the main runway, the secondary runway was put into operation at the airport and as many as nine flights safely landed using it.

  • DMK leader Kanimozhi tweets about Chennai Airport roof leak, Twitter users slam her double standards

    Some Twitter users reminded her how her party, along with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), had opposed plans to privatise the airport.

  • Chennai airport put on high alert after bomb threat call

    The call was made to an airline operating flights between here and Hyderabad, and security measures have been put in place, officials said.

  • Green panel approves phase-2 of Chennai airport modernisation

    The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has received the centre‘s approval for preparing the environmental impact study and has been asked to conduct a public hearing, for its proposed Rs 2,587-crore second phase of &#82

  • Centre sends 17 tonnes of snacks, 5,000 litres milk to TN

    The decision was taken during a meeting here of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), chaired by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, to review the reeling flood situation in Tamil Nadu.

  • IAF to evacuate stranded passengers from Chennai airport

    IAF sources said that the Force has received clearance from the authorities to ferry civilian passengers from Chennai to Delhi and the operations would begin post-noon on Thursday.

  • Chennai rains: Airport shut, Army steps up rescue operation

    The spokesperson said Chennai airport authorities had initially shut operations till this morning but due to incessant rains it has now decided to extend it till 6 AM tomorrow.

  • Chennai Airport employees protest against privatisation

    The Airport Authority Employees Union (AAEU) is up in arms against the privatisation of the Chennai airport as they fear it may lead to a sharp rise in user development fee.

  • AAI employees protest against privatisation

    Employees held placards and shouted slogans at Chennai airport against the move on a day when seven officials of a company from France, which is believed to be acquiring the facility.

  • New Chennai Airport Terminals Open With Juniper Networks

    Juniper Networks, has announced that it has deployed a high-performance common use network infrastructure for the new passenger terminals at Chennai Airport.

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