This station serves the Chennai International Airport and the neighbourhoods of Meenambakkam, Tirusulam, Pallavaram, Pammal, Kundrathur and Tambaram.

The other airport metro stations in the country such as those in Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and the proposed ones at Bangalore and Hyderabad are underground.

[2] The station enables rapid transit connectivity with the airport, making Chennai the second city in India after Delhi to achieve this.

The station will be an RCC shell structure building with self-supported secret fix aluminium roofing.

[6] As of December 2019, about 9,000 passengers board trains at the metro station,[1] up from about 6,500 passengers in February 2019,[7] making it the third busiest Metro stations in Chennai, after Thirumangalam and Chennai Central.