AAI staff lobby to stop airport privatisation

Chennai: The standoff is worsening between the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Planning Commission over the privatisation of the Chennai and Kolkata airports. Fear of retrenchment and loss of revenue has fuelled AAI's hostility to the proposal.
Though the plan panel has briefed the Tamil Nadu government on the plan to divest Chennai airport and sent the proposal to the ministry of civil aviation seeking an immediate response, the ministry has not yet agreed to play along, a senior deputy director at AAI's headquarters in Delhi said.
After meetings over the past week during which senior AAI officials expressed concern over the privatisation plan, more than 100 employees of the authority including senior staff staged a protest at the Chennai airport on Wednesday.
27/07/12 Arun Janardhanan & V Ayyappan/Times of India

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Categories: airports Jul 2012