Jamnagar Airport Gets International Status For Anant-Radhika Pre-Wedding (image-twitter/aaijamairport)

The Jamnagar airport has been given an international airport status for 10 days for the Ambani event. The small airport which only saw a maximum of six arrivals lately received more than 200 private jets carrying more than 2,000 global tycoons and high-profile guests for the pre-wedding celebration.

As per the Hindu report, international status has been granted to the airport so that it can host global leaders and personalities including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Rihanna, Ivanka Trump, and several former prime ministers to the three-day pre-wedding celebrations.

The airport can welcome international flights from February 25 to March 5, said an airport official. The Union government’s Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Home Affairs have pressed in resources to set up a Custom, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) facility at the airport, reports The Hindu.

Currently, the airport is a defense airport, where commercial flights are already in operation. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has built a passenger terminal building for commercial flights. The AAI has also granted access to the sensitive technical region of the airport for the pre-wedding bash. The civilian area of the airport can accommodate six small aircraft such as Falcon-200s or three big ones such as the Airbus A320s.

Unlike the usual six movements the airport witnesses, on Friday a total of 140 aircraft movements were expected. Apart from passenger flights, cargo flights will also arrive at the airports. A total of four cargo flights during the week-long period are expected to land.

March 4 will be the next busiest day for the airport when most guests are expected to depart.

Anant Ambani, the director of Reliance’s new energy business will tie the knot with Industrialist Viren Merchant’s daughter, Radhika Merchant.