Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday quashed Airport Authority of India's (AAI) decision to hand over the ground operations of the new terminal at Chandigarh international airport to a subsidiary company of Air India.
With this decision, private airlines will continue to handle the ground operations at the terminal, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 11. Chandigarh International Airport Limited (CHIAL) had, through a communicated dated June 4, awarded the contract for handling the ground operations of the terminal to Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL), the Air India subsidiary.
Justice R K Jain passed these orders while allowing a petition filed by Federation of Indian Airlines, a society comprising major air operators of India. "The contract alleged to have been given by the AAI to AIATSL for entire ground handling services at the new terminal of the Chandigarh International Airport, ousting the petitioner-airlines to self-handle their ground handling services, is held to be illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable, unconstitutional and hence, hereby set aside," observed Justice Jain.
25/09/15 Times of India
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With this decision, private airlines will continue to handle the ground operations at the terminal, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 11. Chandigarh International Airport Limited (CHIAL) had, through a communicated dated June 4, awarded the contract for handling the ground operations of the terminal to Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL), the Air India subsidiary.
Justice R K Jain passed these orders while allowing a petition filed by Federation of Indian Airlines, a society comprising major air operators of India. "The contract alleged to have been given by the AAI to AIATSL for entire ground handling services at the new terminal of the Chandigarh International Airport, ousting the petitioner-airlines to self-handle their ground handling services, is held to be illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable, unconstitutional and hence, hereby set aside," observed Justice Jain.
25/09/15 Times of India
