Saturday, February 03, 2018

Govt to study aviation requirement of each city to plan infra for next 20 years

New Delhi: The government will conduct a study within three months to estimate city-wise air traffic growth expected in the next two decades and accordingly see the scale of aviation infrastructure required there and its cost. Aviation minister Jayant Sinha said this a day after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley spoke of increasing India's airport capacity five times to handle an expected annual traffic of a billion (100 crore) flyers in 15 to 20 years.
Many Indian airports, ironically its busiest ones like Delhi and Mumbai, are completely choked at the moment. In the last three to four years while traffic grew exponentially, Delhi Airport management, for instance, did not add capacity on terminal or runway side despite having all the land required at its disposal. As the result, Delhi's IGI Airport today is highly slot-constrained despite sitting on a massive land bank that can accommodate one more runway and much bigger terminals. IGIA may have more capacity only by 2020-21 when the fourth runway and an expanded terminal is ready, something that should have happened long ago.
"We do not want a situation in future where we are chasing demand. We want to be ahead of requirement. A study will be conducted to estimate the aviation infra required in different places and the capital required for that. India is expected to have a billion flyers in 15-20 years and the capital expenditure to meet that requirement is pegged at Rs 3-4 lakh crore," Jayant Sinha said.
02/02/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India


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