Surat airport to become ‘silent’ from Jan 15

Surat: The Surat international airport will soon join the list of other ‘silent airports’ across the country.
Official sources said that the Surat airport will have not have boarding announcements starting from January 15.
Sources said that the airports like Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai are silent airports where there are no announcements for boarding. All airlines will notify any change in timings, baggage delivery belts through SMS.In case of changes in boarding gates, the announcement will be made.
Airport director, Aman Saini said, “The decision to make Surat airport a silent airport was taken after consulting with all the stakeholders. Surat has joined the list of silent airports like Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi.”
According to Saini, the announcements will be restricted to delay, cancellation, gate change, loss of important documents, last passenger paging or security awareness.