A new outlook of Madurai International Airport's utility

After many news broadcasts and little delays, at last Madurai International Airport is inaugurated and opened recently.

Now, what?

How do we have the Airport functioning and useful!? Madurai Airport will function as international airport, only when international flights come in and go out of Madurai Airport. Why there is no news on that? Here is the reason -

Flight operators were complaining that Customs Checking Operation division has to be opened in Madurai Airport, then only International flights can operate. When asked with the Customs operations, they are telling International Flights has to operate then only Customs can be started.

Having this situation, there had been discussions between officers and now conclusions are made lately that in a month's time flights will operate. Basically, in 2 weeks Customs will start it seems (Government's message), and automatically international flights would start working in another 2 weeks (assumption).

In one month - Madurai to Colombo will be operated by Srilanka Airlines, Air India Express; Madurai To Dubai will be operated by Air Arabia; Madurai to Singapore will be operated by Air Asia. Air Lanka will operate from Colombo to Europe and America.
Air Lanka has decided to provide flights from Colombo to all across the world, which means flights are connected from Madurai to all around the world!!

There are numerous advantages of Madurai International Airport and flights -
Every time, people from Southern districts have to go to Chennai to fly out of the country. Now, it is a great step that people from Southern districts can fly from Madurai to anywhere in the world, directly from Madurai.

As on date - people travelling from Chennai to all south asian countries are most of them are from southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Almost 70% are from Madurai and southern districts. With the Madurai international airport, people can directly fly to and fro Madurai to anywhere in the world.

Also, all the tourists from Tamil Nadu can go from Madurai directly to anywhere in the world - which helps them with lesser travel and also lesser cost for the trip.

Also, the international tourists from Asian countries who visit Kanyakumari, Meenakshi Amman Temple, Coutrallam etc., can come to Madurai directly, instead of coming to Chennai and then coming to Madurai in different modes of transports!

Great job by the Government!!! We at Madurai247.com thank the government for Madurai's International Airport!!!! Great step and this is going to change Madurai for good! First step haan!