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The
airport
is
served
by
the
airport
metro
station
of
the
Chennai
Metro
and
the
Tirusulam
railway
station
of
the
Chennai
Suburban
Railway
system.
To
cope
with
the
passenger
traffic,
two
new
terminals,
namely,
T2
and
one
satellite
terminal,
are
under
construction
to
handle
40
million
passengers
per
year.Once
completed,
it
will
be
India's
first
airport
to
have
a
satellite
terminal.
The
new
satellite
terminal
will
be
connected
through
a
four
way
underground
walkalator
for
passenger
movement
across
different
terminals.
Still,
the
Tirusulam
airport
complex
is
expected
to
reach
saturation
by
2035,
with
a
peak
capacity
of
40
million
passengers,
and
a
proposal
for
a
new
greenfield
airport
in
Chennai
is
underway
for
decades.
Once
the
new
airport
is
commissioned,
both
the
airports
will
be
functional.
The
domestic
and
the
international
terminals
are
named
after
former
chief
ministers
of
Tamil
Nadu
K.
Kamaraj
and
C.
N.
Annadurai,
respectively.
It
was
the
first
airport
in
India
to
have
international
and
domestic
terminals
located
adjacent
to
each
other.
The
airport
serves
as
the
regional
headquarters
of
the
Airports
Authority
of
India
(AAI)
for
South
India
comprising
the
states
of
Tamil
Nadu,
Andhra
Pradesh,
Telangana,
Karnataka,
and
Kerala
and
the
union
territories
of
Puducherry
and
Lakshadweep.....
There
is
a
current
plan
of
setting
up
of
a
new
greenfield
airport
at
Sriperumbudur
and
Tiruvallur
taluks,
apart
from
the
expansion
of
the
existing
airport
at
Tirusulam.
The
greenfield
airport
would
come
up
on
2400
acre
of
land.
About
โน
200,000
million
will
be
invested
in
a
greenfield
airport
near
Chennai,
says
Tamil
Nadu's
vision
2023
document.
The
feasibility
report
of
the
International
Civil
Aviation
Organization
(ICAO),
which
has
suggested
that
a
second
airport
for
the
city
could
come
up
on
5,000
acres
(2,000
ha)
at
Sriperumbudur,
was
submitted
to
the
state
government.
The
four-runway
second
airport
is
proposed
to
be
built
on
4,823
acres
near
Sriperumbudur,
southwest
of
Chennai,
at
an
estimated
cost
of
โน
35,000
million
in
the
first
phase
and
Second
phase
has
not
been
disclosed.To
be
built
in
two
phases,
the
anticipated
expenditure
for
phase
I
of
the
project
is
โน
40,000
million
with
an
87,000
sq
m
terminal
along
with
a
parking
space
for
750
vehicles.
The
second
phase
involves
1,50,000
sq
m
of
terminal
and
enhancing
parking
space
to
accommodate
1,500
vehicles
at
an
investment
of
โน
14,750
million.The
greenfield
airport
will
be
able
to
handle
40
million
passengers
per
annum.
As
of
September
2019,
the
State
government
has
shortlisted
six
locations
for
the
second
international
airport.
These
include
Thiruporur
(40
km
from
the
present
airport),
Vallathur
(70
km),
Thodur
(55
km),
Mappedu
(46
km),
Cheyyar
(90
km),
and
Maduramangalam
(55
km).
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