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NOIDA/LUCKNOW: NCR’s second airport, coming up at Jewar in Greater Noida, will officially be known as Noida International Airport and will have as its constant companion a logo depicting a flying sarus crane, Uttar Pradesh’s state bird that has one of its richest habitats in the wetlands around Noida.
The decision was taken on Thursday after senior executives of Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL), the subsidiary of concessionaire Zurich AG that has been formed to build and operate the new airport, and officials of the civil aviation department met chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow.
The design of the terminal building was also presented to the chief minister.
While the project has made significant headway with land acquisition complete and the handover of land to Zurich AG for the first phase likely by mid-2021, the airport came to be referred to in different ways in the absence of an official name. It was commonly referred to as Jewar airport. In the design sketches of the terminal buildings that were recently released, the project was referred to as Delhi Noida International Airport.
Officials of Noida International Airport Ltd (NIAL), the special purpose vehicle formed by the state government to oversee the airport project, objected to this and asked YIAPL to refrain from using a title till both sides had finalised a name.
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