PM for providing sophisticated facilities to passengers at airports

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to provide sophisticated facilities on all airports of the country which have been made available in Islamabad airport.
The prime minister inaugurated the improved facilities for international and domestic passengers at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Monday. These facilities include new building for international departure and fast-track check-in counters, business class fast track, 35 percent enhanced car park area and addition of 32 new international standards public toilets. The new facilities have been completed at a cost of Rs460 million and include a new taxiway – Delta, constructed at a cost of Rs450 million that will help save Rs120 million in two months for the airlines in fuel costs.
Nawaz visited after going through different renovated sections of the airport. He expressed his satisfaction over the quality of work and directed that similar facilities be provided at other airports so as to ease travel woes of the travellers. The prime minister directed to increase the pace of work, when informed that renovation of other airports was also progressing. Earlier, on his arrival at the airport, the prime minister was received by Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Advisor to PM on Aviation Captain Shujaat Azeem and DG Civil Aviation Authority Air Marshal (R) Mohammad Yousuf.
The airport would be handed over to the Air Force after completion of new airport for Islamabad that is currently being built. Captain Shujaat Azeem briefed the prime minister about the project. He said that BB International Airport was declared a pilot project to launch a drive of up-gradation of facilities offered by the CAA. He mentioned that the services of leading national architects had been hired to give input on measures for improvement of facilities. He said new facilities had been added to ensure quick clearance of passengers during peak rush hours.
The CAA DG told the media that the taxiway alone would help save around Rs120 million in only two months time owing to fuel costs alone. He hoped that the up-gradation of the airport, under the vision of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, would provide better facilities to the international and domestic passengers, till the completion of the new Islamabad airport.