Pvt airports attract soaring corporate interest

The government had recently announced a greenfield airport policy under which all such proposals would be routed through the steering committee set up by the ministry of civil aviation to give quicker clearances.
“The private-use airports will be built on a much smaller scale, but the airports for public use will be mid-sized, which will be able to handle aircraft like the A320s, if not bigger ones,” said a civil aviation ministry official.
A recent status report on various greenfield airports by the ministry said the proposals are at various stages of consideration.
Airports Authority of India (AAI), the country’s public sector airport developer, has already conducted the mandatory site inspection for Karaikal and Dabra.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has given in-principal approval to the airport proposed at Pernem. Other proposals like the ones for private use at Paladi-Ramsinghpur, Saswad (Pune), Sonepat (Haryana), and one at Adarsh Palm Retreat, Bangalore, are still under consideration.
Apart from these private airports, there are several state government proposals for airports at Chakan and Sindhdurg in Maharashtra, which are awaiting in-principal approval.
Last year, the Karnataka government awarded the Simoga airport to a consortium of Maytas Infrastructure (promoted by the promoters of IT services group Satyam) and VIE India Project Development and Holding LLC.
05/09/08 Anirban Chowdhury/Business Standard

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