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Mumbai Airport To Celebrate “Jaya He” Museum In A Week-Long Carnival!

AirWhizzMay 15, 2018 No Comments

Mumbai Airport To Celebrate “Jaya He” Museum In A Week-Long Carnival!

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If you have travelled to the Terminal 2 of Mumbai airport, you must have come across the beautiful paintings and sculptures that are displayed at the ‘Jaya He’ Museum.

Coinciding with the International Museum Day which is celebrated on May 18, Mumbai International Airport Limited (MAIL) has announced that the Mumbai Airport will organise a week-long carnival to celebrate the Jaya He Museum.

Here are all the details of the event –

  • Passengers will get to interact with artists who are directly involved with designing the museum.
  • The theme of the event will be ‘paper’. Stalls will be set up across the airport which will display craftwork and sculptures made from paper.
  • Anil Nayak and Moreshwar Patil, the two artists who designed the artifacts for the museum, will be making live sketches of passengers as well.
  • Videos and photos of the passengers visiting the museum will be put on the website and displayed across social media.

The Jaya He museum spreads across 4 levels of the Terminal 2 Building at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. The museum displays Indian culture through beautiful paintings, arts & crafts and sculptures.

The airport museum is promoted by MAIL through organised tours. It is a very popular tour and the airport gets a minimum of 10 bookings per day. The tour is organised keeping in mind the travel schedule of the passenger and the route of the tour is decided accordingly.

40 percent of the passengers who visit the Jaya He are foreign tourists and this number is increasing every year. The airport has hired interns from colleges who guide the passengers through the tour.

MAIL has recently tied up with the International Council of Museums (ICOM). This has been done to make the airport museum popular amongst other museums in the world.

If you want to know more about the Jaya He museum, look no further. Simply download the AirWhizz App and get all the information you need about the museum and other services available at the airport on the move.

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Expansion Of Pune Airport To Start From July 2018!

AirWhizzMay 07, 2018 No Comments

Expansion Of Pune Airport To Start From July 2018!

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As part of the expansion plan, a new terminal building will be constructed at the Pune airport.

With 20.6 percent growth in the number of passengers in 2017-18, the Pune airport was ranked third in the list of fastest-growing Indian airports.

To handle this rise in passenger traffic, Airports Authority Of India(AAI) will expand the Pune Airport.

Here are the details of the expansion plan –

  • The Design of the new terminal building has been approved
  • The Construction work will start by end of July
  • The new terminal building will be ready for operation by 2020-21
  • More facilities for passenger comfort will be added
  • The current terminal building will be expanded as well

Apart from the new building, the airport’s expansion plan includes an integrated cargo hub, a multi-storeyed parking facility, more aircraft parking bays and additional aerobridges, among other facilities.

A graphic design of the airport’s new building is being prepared and will be made public soon. This walkthrough will enable people to experience what is in store at the airport.

Passengers and airlines at the Pune airport have faced a lot of issues in the past. A space crunch led to unnecessary delays of flights, lack of facilities for passengers within the airport, people being made to sit on a flight even after landing and many other issues which will be solved once the airport is expanded.

The expansion will be done using modern civil engineering techniques to ensure that the work is completed on time.

On May 3, Jayant Sinha, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, had approved the development of airport infrastructure in the county to accommodate the increasing air passenger traffic. AAI Airports such as Pune, Guwahati, Lucknow and Goa amongst others will be expanded in the next 4 to 5 years.

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