Chennai Greenfield Airport is a proposed

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project to serve the Chennai Metropolitan Area in the Indian state of

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. It is planned to be built near Parandur in

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, and will serve as the secondary airport alongside the existing

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Background and planning

Plans for a new

for the Chennai Metropolitan Area was put forward as early as in 1998. In 2007, the

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announced that the new airport would be set up in land near

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. As the new airport was delayed due to land acquisition problems, an expansion plan was unveiled to expand the existing

in 2018 to increase the terminal area to with a capacity of 35 million passengers. The existing airport is expected to reach saturation by 2035. The

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initially proposed alternate locations such as Mamandur for the airport, but the project was not started. In 2022, the state government announced renewed plans to build a new airport. The state government identified Padalam, Thiruporur, Pannur and Parandur as the possible sites for the airport. After a feasibility study, the

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shortlisted Parandur and Pannur as the sites for the proposed airport. In August 2022, the

selected Parandur in

as location for the new airport on of land. The planned airport would be spread over 13 villages, and farmlands. The proposed land acquisition for the airport has led to protests by the local villagers due to the fear of loss of livelihood.

Connectivity

In 2022, the state government proposed an extension for the planned Orange Line of the

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from

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to Parandur at a cost of . In August 2024, another new extension from the Airport metro to Poonamallee was proposed by CMRL with the aim of connecting the existing airport with the new airport by metro.

References

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Background and planning

Connectivity

See also

References