The newly inaugurated Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport here, near Visakhapatnam, will start operating commercial flights from August 17 with an initial annual passenger capacity of six million, the GMR group said on Saturday.
The facility in Andhra Pradesh's Bhogapuram is the second greenfield airport in the country to start operations this year, after Uttar Pradesh's Jewar airport, which commenced flight operations on June 15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the airport here on Saturday.