Shirdi Airport to get baggage handling system in 3 months

Shirdi Airport will soon get a new baggage handling system which will be installed by airport operator Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC). Steps have been taken to cater to more devotees and passengers visiting Shirdi. Each year, the revered city of Shirdi is visited by a large number of devotees, and with the introduction of an airport, the place is receiving more traffic. In order to control this, MADC will be installing baggage handling system for which it has rolled out the tender process. A pre-bid meet is supposed to take place on 27th November.
Addressing the media, Suresh Kakani, vice chairman and managing director of MADC said, “Baggage handling system would be in place in three months. Currently, passengers carry only hand baggage. However, looking at the flight expansions by January, passenger load will demand the system to be in place.”


MADC has invited an e-tender for supplying, installation, testing and commissioning for the baggage handling on the Shirdi Airport. As of now, only two flights are operational from Shirdi Airport; Alliance Air (a subsidiary of Air India) is running flights from Shirdi to Mumbai and Hyderabad daily. According to the airport operator, the pre-bid meeting has invited all probable bidders in Mumbai to bid, discuss and make suggestions. Mr. Suresh Kakani also mentioned that this procedure of bidding will be concluded most probably by the end of this year. The number of flight operations at the Shirdi Airport will soon be increased to five by the end of January 2018. Not only this, but the airport is also equipped for global operations and soon things will fall in line. The senior officials mentioned that all the major infrastructural work is supposed to be completed in the first few months of 2018.