Coimbatore Airport - A Class Apart!
Coimbatore Airport | Image Resource : panoramio.com
Driving down the ten plus kilometers to the airport which is situated on the foothills of the Nilgiris, welcomes the flier with its tree lined approach and well manicured lawns, together with the futuristic architectural airport terminal building. The Coimbatore airport is a fusion of modern amenities and natural beauty rolled into one.
The inside of the terminal is spacious and immaculately maintained. The check-in counters of the various domestic as well as international airlines are well located, providing an easy access for the purpose of speedy and hassle free check-in procedures. The departure terminal has many eating places, book stores and curio outlets, where travelers can indulge to their heart’s content. A banking counter is also located in this terminal. While the arrival terminal has a duty free shop, tourist information counter, hotel reservations counter as well as car rental services. Besides these facilities, the airport also has medical facilities, free wheel chairs for the ill or physically challenged, child care room and well furnished rest rooms for transit passengers. The airport has a well laid out parking facility which can accommodate more than two hundred and fifty cars at a time. The communication between the airport and the city is extremely well organized. There are city bus services, general taxis as well as rented cars that ferry passengers to and from the airport and the city, by charging a nominal fare.
The Coimbatore airport is well equipped to handle a large number of passengers and it is for this that the airport is considered to be eighteenth largest airport of the country.
