Pratibha Patil, President of India, on 23 March 2012, inaugurated the Jalgaon airport in Maharashtra.

Apart from the inauguration of the airport, the Phase II work of the airport to extend its airstrip for accommodating landing and take-off of bigger airplanes has also begun. Air India and Jet Airways are in fray to take survey of Jalgaon airport commercial aspects to start their flights post-inauguration. The airport has working area, terminal building and car parking areas having water conservation and harvesting mechanism, focuses more use of solar energy with automated battery backup system, has green zone developed in airport periphery to ease airplanes landing, and take-off noise factor. The airport passenger area has fully air-conditioned waiting room for 50 passengers, reserved lounge, public addressing system and dedicated electricity supplies with 50 car parking bay. It has two ATR airplane parking and apron area and latest aircraft operations system installed.

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