Describing the rapid growth currently being witnessed in India’s civil aviation industry as ‘monumental’ Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for Civil Aviation, said that Delhi airport would be climbing up the rankings to be among the top three globally.
“Delhi Airport today has a throughput capability of close to 70 million passengers. By the end of this year or early next year, Delhi airport will grow to 109 million passengers,” he said, adding, “that’s the way, the country is going to transform from a logistics and transportation standpoint, from metro cities down to tertiary cities".
Scindia made these observations at Business Today’s ‘India @100: Achieving Global Leadership’ summit in New Delhi Saturday in response to a question from Siddharth Zarabi, Managing Editor, Business Today Television.
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) is the country’s busiest airport and has four runways and a throughput capacity of 70 million passengers currently. The Ministry of Civil Aviation is very keen to develop IGIA as part of its strategy to make the country into a global aviation hub.
Scindia revealed as much when he said the mega aircraft orders by Indian carriers IndiGo and Air India will also help the country regain its position in the international skies, which it had held from the 1960s through 1970s.
26/08/2023 Manish Pant/Business Today
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