RIL to move on cargo airport plan in SEZ

New Delhi: More trouble could be brewing up for the GMR-led Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd (DIAL) that’s bitterly opposing Uttar Pradesh government’s proposal for building the Greater Noida airport 72 km away from IGI airport.
A team of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd recently met aviation ministry officials to kickstart the proposed cargo airport at their ambitious SEZ project in Jhajjar. The airport and a 2,000-MW power plant were the highlights of the Rs 40,000-crore project that will be spread over 25,000 acres in Gurgaon and Jhajjar when Ambani inked the deal with Haryana last June.
While the Greater Noida airport is 72 km away, the Reliance cargo one is so close to IGI that ATC services will have to be provided from there itself.
Saying in no uncertain terms that they would oppose this airport, a senior DIAL official said: "We are all for the growth of aviation sector but the issue is of timing of introducing more than one airport in Delhi. There has to be maturity in the market before one does that. Otherwise there will be two or three week airports instead of one strong hub." The group said its stand on greater Noida airport would hold true for the Ambani cargo plan also.
18/12/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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