New Airport to be built in Haputale

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New Airport to be built in Haputale to promote domestic airport network


Plans have been drawn up to construct an Airport in the Haputale area for the purpose of landing light aircraft under the programme of promoting the internal airport network, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation revealed.
According to the Ministry, the new Airport is planned to be built in the Sewood Estate at Kotalagala in Haputale. It is intended to put up a runway which is 1.2 kilometres long and 75 metres wide. The work is expected to cost Rs.700 million.

Mehr dazu hier:

http://www.news.lk/news/business/it...-haputale-to-promote-domestic-airport-network

Finde ich wirklich cool, dort diesen Airport in Angriff zu nehmen.




Orte wie Ella, Bandarawela, Nuwara Eliya, Badulla, Diyatalawa und auch Worlds End sind schneller für Touristen erreichbar. Ein zentraler Flughafen im Hochland wird der gesamten Region wirtschaftlich helfen.

 

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[h=1]Colombo to Haputale within 45 minutes[/h]
Travel time from Colombo to Haputale will be reduced to 45 minutes when the new domestic airport is built at Sherwood estate, Totalagala, Haputale at a higher of 5,970 feet above sea level, said Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.
Presiding over a meeting held at Badulla old Kachcheri auditorium, Minister de Silva said the project would take time to complete as it involved an environmental impact report, requisitioning land and building an access road, and paying compensation to land taken over for the propose. However if any protest campaign was launched by trade unions against the project, he would consider dropping the idea. Public protests were encountered when the Uva University was built. But after the project was completed, it brought about a vast development and created many employment avenues for the people in the area.

more and source: http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2016/03/24/local/77318

 

[Bettina]

Endlich mal ein neuer Flughafen!

 

[Manuel]

Endlich mal ein neuer Flughafen!

Eine wirklich ganz innovative Idee! Man hat doch nur 100km entfernt einen perfekten, kaum benutzen internationalen Flughafen, der m.W. momentan noch als Reislager benutzt wird. Das mit Flughäfen nicht automatisch Touristen kommen ist mittlerweile weltweit bewiesen. Ich hoffe diese Verschwendung von Geldern und Ressourcen wird nicht umgesetzt!