Adani’s big plan to own Indian aviation: invest in everything but an airline
Unlike other airports managed by the Adani Group—in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram, and Mangaluru—this one was built from scratch.
Spread over 2,800 acres, it’s the largest in Adani’s portfolio. It has an initial annual capacity of handling 20 million passengers. And it includes India’s largest planned general aviation facility, with over 67 parking bays and a separate heliport.
This is the blueprint for Adani’s aviation ambitions.
“When people think of aviation, they should think of Adani,” a senior executive at the Flight Simulation Technique Centre (FSTC) told The Ken. “That’s the scale of our ambition in this business.” Adani holds a controlling stake in FSTC, which runs India’s largest pilot-training simulation network.
But not everybody is thrilled about the castle Adani is building in the clouds.
One of them is Akasa Air. When the four-year-old airline wanted to begin operations from Navi Mumbai in 2025, it found it couldn’t use its preferred ground-service provider.
“We wanted it to be the same people from the Mumbai airport,” said an Akasa executive. Normally, this wouldn’t be an issue. Airlines can choose from multiple ground-service providers at airports. But a single provider helps them reduce costs across airports.
29/04/2026 Nuha Bubere/The Ken
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