10 cities need one more airport each, says study

New Delhi: Ten cities, including the six metros, will need another airport by 2020, according to a study by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).
While nine Delhi, Bangalore Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Amritsar will need a second airport, Mumbai, where a second airport is already coming up, will need a third, the study says.
According to the report, around $30 billion will have to be invested to develop various airports in the country. This is apart from the $9 billion that Civil Aviation Joint Secretary KN Shrivastava said would be spent in the next four-and-a-half years by the Airports Authority of India and private developers.
Mumbai and Delhi airports, being modernised by the private sector, handle more than 20 million passengers per annum and will be saturated by 2010, when passenger traffic touches 25-30 million in Mumbai and 30-40 million in Delhi, the study has found.
The existing airports in Bangalore and Hyderabad will be saturated in 2008, when the traffic will touch 10 million. That is when the two greenfield airports in these cities are expected to be operational.
05/07/07 Anirban Chowdhury/Business Standard

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Categories: Airports Jul 2007