The airport sector has witnessed strong growth in the past few years. From 2014-15 to 2018-19, passenger traffic grew at a double-digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16 per cent while cargo traffic grew […]
India’s aviation industry is rapidly growing on the back of rising demand for domestic and international air travel. The country needs more airports to keep pace with the surge in demand. At a recent India […]
Greenfield airport development has been a high priority area for the government. The capacity challenges that the Indian airport sector will face in the future can only be dealt with by timely creation of new […]
The past two-three years have seen big-ticket greenfield projects making significant headway in terms of implementation. A number of these have been completed and commissioned as well. Kannur airport, located in the Malabar region of […]
Conceptualised in 2009, the Dholera greenfield international airport is a state government-driven project that will be developed alongside the Dholera Special Investment Region. It will be the second international airport in Gujarat after Ahmedabad and […]
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), under its National Civil Aviation Policy, 2016, introduced the Regional Connectivity Scheme – Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (RCS-UDAN) – to enhance regional connectivity, develop economically sustainable routes and […]
The privatisation regime that took centre stage a decade and a half ago has proved to be a sound business case for the airport sector and has significantly raised the bar for service quality at […]
The airport sector is highly regulated. Lenders draw comfort from the robust regulatory framework and assured returns that the sector offers. There has been slow growth in passenger traffic in the past few months due […]
About 99 per cent of the passenger aircraft today have space for cargo and 6-12 per cent of the total revenue earned by airline operators comes from cargo handling. In 2018-19, Indian airlines handled about […]
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) caters to close to 345 million air passengers per year, operating a fleet of about 620 aircraft through 103 airports. In a bid to serve the burgeoning demand, the […]
Energy consumption is a major cost component for operating an airport. With increasing passenger traffic at airports, the cost of energy consumption too is rising. In 2018-19, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) consumed 467 […]
A sustainable revenue stream is the cornerstone of the viability of an airport, given the stiff regulatory environment and volatility in tariffs. Over the years, emphasis has been laid on the timely creation of quality […]
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is responsible for carrying out air navigation services (ANS) across all the airports in the country. The authority entered the area of air traffic flow management (ATFM) with the […]
Air traffic in India has been growing at record levels over the past few years reaching 223.6 million during 2015-16. Between 2021 and 2025, passenger growth is expected to be maintained at 7.4 per cent. […]
Recent years have seen a growing need for the development and augmentation of air connectivity to both existing and newly developed regions and industrial zones. Two examples are the proposed Dholera international airport in Gujarat […]
Lauded as one of the largest infrastructure projects in the country, the modernised Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has been developed by Delhi International Airport Private Limited (DIAL), a joint venture (JV) between GMR, the […]
Airport development in India primarily comes under the purview of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). Of India’s 134 airports, AAI manages 125, of which 94 are operational. Further, AAI is involved in the Delhi, […]
The Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), also known as UDAN (Ude desh ka aam nagrik) was proposed under the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) in June 2016 and launched in October 2016. Objectives and guiding principles […]
After being almost 11 months in the making and after several rounds of consultations among government, industry and other stakeholders, the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) was finally put into place in June 2016. The […]
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