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  • Hyderabad Airport aims big with more runways, more aircraft stands

    Hyderabad: Not stopping at increasing the number of destinations, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is steaming ahead with a major expansion plan that will see its capacity being raised from the original design of 12 million passengers per annum (MPPA) to 34 million passengers very soon. As one of the fastest-growing airports in India, […]

  • You can now fly to 65 destinations from Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: As the number of Covid-19 cases steadily comes down across the country, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is bustling with activity, with October 9 recording the highest (domestic and international) passenger footfall of nearly 48,000 and 350 Air Traffic Movements, which is 77 per cent of pre-Covid numbers. Notwithstanding the restrictions triggered by […]

  • Hyderabad: Gold seized at RGIA

    Hyderabad: The customs officials on Monday booked a case against a person for smuggling gold from Riyadh to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad via Kuwait. The passenger, who arrived by a Jazeera flight from Riyadh, concealed the gold worth Rs.34.24 lakh in cookies and chocolate boxes. The passenger’s suspicious movements roused the suspicion […]

  • First Hyderabad-London Air India flight takes off from RGIA

    The national carrier Air India Flight AI 147 took off from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport as officials from the airport, Air India officials and other airport stakeholders gathered at the terminal to celebrate

  • Direct flights from Hyderabad RGIA to Colombo resume

    A Sri Lankan Airlines flight took off at 9.55 am with 120 passengers from Hyderabad to Colombo amidst much fanfare at the airport. Senior officials from GMR Hyderabad International Airport and Sri Lankan Airlines

  • RGIA expansion picks up pace

    Hyderabad: The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is getting bigger, and better. According to a post from the RGIA social media handles on Monday, expansion of the airport, which was earlier this month awarded the Gold Recognition by the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2021 in the below 25 Million Passengers Per […]

  • RGIA recommences Hyderabad-Malé flight service

    IndiGo flight 6E 8108 will operate between Hyderabad and Malé three times a week - Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday - departing from RGIA at 2.20 pm (IST) and arriving in Maldives at 4.30 pm (IST).

  • Hyderabad airport adjudged as ‘Best Regional Airport in India & Central Asia’ by Skytrax

    Progressed from 71st position in 2020 to 64th position in 2021 among the World’s top 100 airports

  • Heroin worth Rs 21 cr seized at RGIA

    Hyderabad: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths on Monday seized 3.2 kilograms of heroin worth around Rs 21 crore, from a Zambian woman at the RGI Airport Shamshabad. The woman passenger arrived from Zambia via Johannesburg and Doha to Hyderabad. “On checking, the officials found the woman was carrying a white powder. Further checks […]

  • Indian bizman held in Hyderabad for visiting Libya illegally

    Hyderabad: The RGIA police on Tuesday arrested a man for travelling to Libya and staying there for a fortnight in violation of an order issued by the Indian government. Syed Haji Ismail, a native of Kalburgi in Karnataka, holds an Indian passport and lived in Dubai where he has a business. On June 22, Haji […]

  • Hyderabad International Airport commissions 5 MW solar plant

    Spread over 45 acre, more than 30 thousand solar panels have been installed to produce 10 MW power.

  • Hyderabad Traffic police facilitate transport of live organs

    A medical team started with a heart and lungs from RGIA in an ambulance at 2.09 pm and reached KIMS Hospital at 2.35 pm, covering 36.8 km in 26 minutes.

  • RGIA witnesses dip in international flight services

    The RGIA had around 20 international destinations before the second wave and now it has 11 international destinations

  • Live organs shifted via green channel in Hyderabad

    Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Traffic Police on Thursday facilitated the transport of live human organs through a green channel from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to KIMS Hospital in Secunderabad. A medical team carrying the organs (lungs and heart) started from the RGIA at 2.19 pm and covered 36.8 km in 26 minutes to reach the […]

  • Heroin worth Rs 78 cr seized at RGIA, 2 women flyers held

    The heroin was supposed to be delivered to their handlers in north India, sources said. The DRI officials nabbed the women based on specific intelligence.

  • Restrictions, Covid-19 force cancellation of 30 Hyderabad flights

    At least 30 flights, including both arrivals and departures from the RGIA, were cancelled till 9 pm, with the number to go up by midnight on Friday

  • Woman held at RGIA with gold worth Rs 25 lakh

    Hyderabad: Customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad on Friday seized gold worth Rs 25.4 lakh from a woman passenger who arrived here on a Sharjah-Hyderabad flight. According to Customs officials, following specific inputs, the passenger was caught smuggling about 548.3 grams of gold paste, concealed in her inner garments. Further investigations […]

  • Rajiv Gandhi International Airport celebrates 13th anniversary

    With an initial capacity of 12 million passengers per annum (MPPA), the airport at present is in the mode of expansion to enhance its capacity to cater to over 34 MPPA

  • Hyderabad has emerged as aerospace hub: KTR

    Aviation sector was affected because of Covid restrictions on the movement of international flights was still on, but the condition is favourable for the aerospace sector here, said Industries Minister

  • Santosh Kumar distributes medicinal plants to passengers at RGIA

    Passengers appreciated the gesture by the MP and for initiating the Green India Challenge and vowed to plant the saplings as well as nurture them with love

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