Mumbai: Private airport operators have written to the civil aviation ministry demanding more autonomy on overall coordination of all airport functions.
Private airport operators, under the banner of Association of Private Airport Operators, wrote a 15-page letter to the ministry earlier this month in response to its invitation for suggestions and objections for drafting the New Civil Aviation Act and Rules, 2012.
“Being a public private partnership model, the private entity should have autonomy in operating the airport on its own,” Satyan Nayar, secretary general of the association.
“Air Traffic Control should be corporatised as it is in countries such as New Zealand or Australia. At least to begin with, the ministry can ensure that the private entities have a role to play in it. We are anyway in charge of all the runways and taxiways,” he added.
29/10/12 Manasi Phadke/Indian Express
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Private airport operators, under the banner of Association of Private Airport Operators, wrote a 15-page letter to the ministry earlier this month in response to its invitation for suggestions and objections for drafting the New Civil Aviation Act and Rules, 2012.
“Being a public private partnership model, the private entity should have autonomy in operating the airport on its own,” Satyan Nayar, secretary general of the association.
“Air Traffic Control should be corporatised as it is in countries such as New Zealand or Australia. At least to begin with, the ministry can ensure that the private entities have a role to play in it. We are anyway in charge of all the runways and taxiways,” he added.
29/10/12 Manasi Phadke/Indian Express
