Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on December 16 commissioned the ‘Open Access’ Fuel Farm and aircraft fuelling facility at the airport.
The facility comprises new greenfield fuel storage created by the airport, as well as the existing brownfield asset of an oil marketing company (OMC) at the airport that MIA took over. The Fuel Farm facility is spread across 5262.57 sq.m adjacent to the old terminal building at Bajpe with a storage capacity of 970 KL in six fuel storage tanks, said a release in Mangaluru on December 17.
Bowsers of the airport Fuel Farm refuelled the first flight under Open Access system — an IndiGo flight 6e554 that arrived from Mumbai in the early hours of December 17. Pankaj Agrawal, Business Head (Fuel Farm), Adani Airport Holdings Ltd. and Srikanth Tata, Head (Operations), MIA handed over a memento to flight captain Yateen Anant Pandit and to the ground handling and engineering staff of the airline to mark the occasion.
