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Chennai Airport in Tamilnadu has many firsts to it. Chennai International Airport was the first International Airport in India to get ISO-9001-2000 Certification. List of other first credited to Chennai Airport include:
- 1st to have International & Domestic Terminals adjacent to each other
- 1st to have aerobridge at Domestic Terminal
- 1st to use Domestic Terminal for International flight on wheels
- 1st to supply free mineral water through designated water coolers at Kamaraj Domestic Terminal & Anna International Terminal.
- 1st to introduce paper cups at Airport to make it environment friendly.
Chennai International Airport is situated at Tirisulam, 7 Km south of Chennai. It has two terminals, Kamaraj Terminal and Anna Terminal. Kamraj Terminal caters to domertic passengers and Anna Terminal handles international flights. Presently, 15 International airlines operate from Chennai Airport. These are: Air India, Air Mauritius, British Airways, Delta Air, Emirates, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Jet Airways, Kuwait Airways, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Oman Air, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and Sri Lankan Airlines.