Flight Kitchen and Caterers
TajSATS, a venture between Indian Hotels Company and Singapore Airport Terminal Services provides the in-flight catering at Chennai airport. The airline lounges includes the Maharaja lounget at the International terminal and the Indian airlines lounge at the domestic terminal. The Taj Madras Flight Kitchen a joint-venture of the Indian Hotels, SATS and Malaysian Arlines manages and operates the Aiport restuarants. The airporst also has a full fledged bar serving snacks and refreshments.
MRO Hangar facility
MRO stands for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul. A MRO hangar was opened by Simplify Deccan in 2008. It can handle 1 A320 or 2 ATR aircraft whil eproviding basic and medium level maintenance checks for the aircrafts. It is equipped with an engineering an a training facility and an engineering maintenance conference room.
Duty Free Shops
The airport houses many duty free shops and restaurants to eat in the front lobby. So far 18,500 sq ft of space is available for said shops. Recently, Flemingo International Dubai was given permission to open duty free shops in both the domestic and the international terminals.
Air traffic control center
India's biggest Air Traffic Control Center is located in Chennai. There are two radars in Chennai—the mono-pulse secondary surveillance radar at Porur and the Chennai Westing House (terminal) radar. ollowing the Performance-based navigation system (PBN) and the air traffic control automation, in 2011, the AAI initiated a pilot project on a Ground-based augmentation system (GBAS), as part of implementing Gagan (Geo Augmented Navigation) in the country. There will be a set of 3–4 GPS satellites, one geo-synchronous satellite, GPS receivers at end of the runways, a ground station and a VHF data broadcast system. When the pilot project starts, Chennai Airport will be the first airport in the country to have the facility