High airport charges dimming Delhi's hub potential: Lufthansa

Bangalore: German airline Lufthnsa today said the high airport charges in Delhi may prevent the national capital from fully achieving its objective of becoming an aviation hub and transiting traffic between Europe and Far East.
A 345 per cent increase in airport charges at Indira Gandhi International airport is "definitely too much in one go" and "we are not able to compensate this", Axel Hilgers, Director (South Asia) Lufthansa told PTI here.
He said the initial idea of creating the new terminal 3 or T3 as a hub for India and hub traffic transiting between Europe and Far-East via India "will not possibly happen -- at least not in the dimension it was planned" because there are other hubs around India which offer better conditions for airlines as well as consumers.
"India is losing out its strategic approach because T3 will not develop as a hub -- at least not as much as it could," Hilgers said.
13/09/12 PTI/Economic Times

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