AAI to upgrade infra at 35 non-metro airports

New Delhi: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will complete the airport-side upgrade of 35 non-metro airports by the year-end.
“We will complete the airport-side upgrade of the 35 airports by the end of this year,” said a senior ministry official.
The official explained that every airport has two sides. One is the city side, which has parking space, hotel, restaurants and other amenities, while the airport side includes everything inside the airport.
The modernisation of the city-side development is part of the upgrade programme for the 35 non-metro airports in the country by 2010.
The authority is also planning to develop the city side of 24 airports, including Jaipur, Udaipur, Lucknow and Amritsar, on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis.
“At airports where we have land, we will deve-lop the city side on the PPP basis,” the official added.
He said consultants were working on the PPP structure, to be used for these projects, and they would submit their report by the end of this month.
21/07/09 Mihir Mishra/Business Standard

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Categories: Airports Jul 2009