Airport developers face runway congestion

New Delhi: A Greenfield Airport policy is still some time away from being formulated. But with members of a Parliamentary Consultative Committee seeking multiple airports in metropolitan cities, at least three airports (at Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore) appear to have been caught in a dilemma.
All the three airports are being developed under the public-private partnership model and would stand to lose revenue if the parliament members’ demand of multiple airports is heeded while formulating the new policy.
As per existing policy (Airport Infrastructure), a greenfield airport is not allowed to be developed within 150 km of an existing airport and then also only where an existing airport is unable to meet the projected requirements of traffic or a new focal point of traffic emerges with sufficient viability. But if the government allows the proposed Taj International Airport at Zevar (Greater Noida) to come up - Zevar is about 70 km from DIAL - then there appears to be a contravention of the OMDA (Operation, Management and Development Agreement) Airports Authority of India signed with GMR for Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL).
20/11/07 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis

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