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25 AAI aiports have been earmarked for leasing: Governement As per the National Monetization Pipeline (NMP), 25 airports of Airports Authority of India (AAI) have been earmarked for leasing over the years 2022 to 2025, the Parliament was told on Monday. The AAI has leased out eight of its airports - Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mangaluru, and Thiruvananthapuram through Public Private Partnership (PPP) for operation, management and development on a long-term lease basis. Out of these, Delhi and Mumbai airports were handed ...
25 AAI aiports have been earmarked for leasing: Governement
25 AAI aiports have been earmarked for leasing: Governement
Source: IANS
14/03/2023 9:09:39 AM
Tamil Nadu to provide 10.72 acre more land for Vellore airport The Tamil Nadu government has commenced a process for providing 10.72 acres of land for the proposed airport at Vellore to the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The airport which is being built on a 97-acre plot presently has a runway, taxiway, ground handling equipment, air traffic control (ATC) and aviation information receiving facility, terminal building and oil depot. However, the land acquisition process was holding up the commissioning of the new airport as the state government ...
Tamil Nadu to provide 10.72 acre more land for Vellore airport
Tamil Nadu to provide 10.72 acre more land for Vellore airport
Source: IANS
4/03/2023 1:26:02 PM
Under National Monetisation Pipeline, 25 Airport Authority of India airports earmarked for leasing till 2025 Under the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), 25 AAI (Airport Authority of India) airports have been earmarked for leasing till 2025 with the help of private sector investment and participation. The leasing of the airports began in 2022. These airports include Trichy, Coimbatore, Madurai & Chennai in Tamil Nadu; Bhubaneswar in Odisha; Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh; Amritsar in Punjab; Indore & Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh; Raipur in Chhattisgarh; Calicut in Kerala; Nagpur in Maharashtra;...
Under National Monetisation Pipeline, 25 Airport Authority of India airports earmarked for leasing till 2025
Under National Monetisation Pipeline, 25 Airport Authority of India airports earmarked for leasing till 2025
Source: IANS
13/02/2023 4:07:19 PM
Over 1.25L passengers availed Digi Yatra at 3 airports since Dec 2022 More than 1.25 lakh passengers have availed Digi Yatra at three airports since its launch. Digi Yatra was launched at three airports, including Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi on December 1, 2022. The Digi Yatra Central Ecosystem (DYCE) is built on the fundamental tenets of privacy by design/default and there is no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, thereby mitigating the data loss, theft and leakage issues. Further, all the passenger data i...
Over 1.25L passengers availed Digi Yatra at 3 airports since Dec 2022
Over 1.25L passengers availed Digi Yatra at 3 airports since Dec 2022
Source: IANS
10/02/2023 10:28:34 AM
Trichy Airport`s new terminal building to be ready by June The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has embarked on a project to expand the Trichy Airport which includes construction of a new integrated passenger terminal building, a new apron and an Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower. Being built at a cost of Rs 951 crore and slated to be ready by June 23, the new building has been designed to process 2,900 passengers during peak hours. Equipped with 48 check-in counters and 10 boarding bridges, the terminal will be an energy efficient building with su...
Trichy Airport`s new terminal building to be ready by June
Trichy Airport`s new terminal building to be ready by June
Source: IANS
12/01/2023 5:02:51 PM
Capital outlay of nearly Rs 98K cr for expansion of airport infra in next 5 years The Airports Authority of India (AAI) and other airport developers have targeted capital outlay of nearly Rs 98,000 crore in the airport sector in the next five years for expansion and modification of existing terminals, new terminals and strengthening of runways, among other activities, the Parliament was told on Thursday. Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Gen V.K. Singh (retd) told the Lok Sabha, in a written reply, that upgradation or modernisation of airports' infrastructure is...
Capital outlay of nearly Rs 98K cr for expansion of airport infra in next 5 years
Capital outlay of nearly Rs 98K cr for expansion of airport infra in next 5 years
Source: IANS
16/12/2022 9:51:46 AM
Airports nearly doubled since 2014, more Greenfield airports in pipeline With the growth in the aviation traffic over the years, the country has recorded corresponding growth in setting up of the airport. The total number of airports has nearly doubled from 74 in the year 2014 to over 141 in the year 2022. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Mopa International Airport, Goa on Sunday for which the foundation stone of the airport was laid in November 2016. Developed at a cost of around Rs 2,870 crore, the airport has been built on the theme of sustai...
Airports nearly doubled since 2014, more Greenfield airports in pipeline
Airports nearly doubled since 2014, more Greenfield airports in pipeline
Source: IANS
11/12/2022 9:21:39 AM
Over 2.15 lakh UDAN flights operated under RCS A total of 453 routes have commenced, operationalising 70 airports, including two water aerodromes and nine heliports, under the government's regional connectivity scheme (RCS). The Ministry of Civil Aviation launched the RCS-UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) in October 2016 to stimulate regional air connectivity and make air travel affordable for the masses. More than 2.15 lakh UDAN flights have operated and over 1.1 crore passengers have availed the benefits of UDAN flights so far. Th...
Over 2.15 lakh UDAN flights operated under RCS
Over 2.15 lakh UDAN flights operated under RCS
Source: IANS
9/12/2022 9:30:18 AM
Aviation Ministry`s consultative committee meets to discuss GAGAN The meeting of the consultative committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation was held on Thursday under the chairmanship of Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The subject of discussion was GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation) system which is a Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS), developed jointly by AAI and ISRO. The meeting was attended by MPs who were informed that GAGAN is a part of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which takes input from the core ...
Aviation Ministry`s consultative committee meets to discuss GAGAN
Aviation Ministry`s consultative committee meets to discuss GAGAN
Source: IANS
9/12/2022 9:28:32 AM
Airports Authority of India to encourage induction of electric vehicles at airports In line with the government's vision of transitioning towards e-Mobility, thee Airports Authority of India (AAI) is endeavoring towards switching over to electric vehicles (EVs), encouraging airport service providers for inducting them, and developing charging infrastructure at airports. Initially, the AAI inducted 10 EVs for official use at its corporate and regional headquarters at New Delhi under a green initiative. Currently, a total of 45 EVs have been engaged at AAI airports and ...
Airports Authority of India to encourage induction of electric vehicles at airports
Airports Authority of India to encourage induction of electric vehicles at airports
Source: IANS
11/11/2022 9:49:43 AM
Cabinet approves renaming of Itanagar airport The Union Cabinet has approved a resolution to rename Itanagar's Hollongi Airport as the Donyi Polo Airport. The resolution was passed by the Arunachal Pradesh government to rename the airport, which reflect the people's reverence of the sun ('Donyi') and the moon ('Polo') to symbolize the traditions and rich cultural heritage of the State. The Centre had granted the 'in-principle' approval for development of Hollongi Greenfield Airport in January 2019. ...
Cabinet approves renaming of Itanagar airport
Cabinet approves renaming of Itanagar airport
Source: IANS
2/11/2022 3:50:03 PM
SAIL, AAI join hands to facilitate operations at Rourkela Airport Aiming to facilitate commercial operations at Rourkela Airport in Odisha under the RCS UDAN scheme, the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the Airport Authority of India (AAI), signed an Operation and Management (O&M) agreement on Friday. SAIL, in 2018, had signed an MoU for the use of its own airport, under the UDAN scheme, for the operation of commercial flights. Now, SAIL has signed the O&M contract with AAI, through its Rourkela Steel Plant, to facilitate the commen...
SAIL, AAI join hands to facilitate operations at Rourkela Airport
SAIL, AAI join hands to facilitate operations at Rourkela Airport
Source: IANS
29/10/2022 9:46:00 AM
PM Narendra Modi likely to inaugurate greenfield airport, 600 MW power plant in Arunachal next week Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Arunachal Pradesh next week and inaugurate the greenfield airport in Itanagar and a 600 MW Kameng hydro electric power project, officials said on Wednesday. A senior official of the state government said that the Prime Minister is likely to visit Arunachal Pradesh on October 27 or 28, though his tour schedule has not been finalised yet. "The PM would visit Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh next week to inaugurate and lay foundation stones...
PM Narendra Modi likely to inaugurate greenfield airport, 600 MW power plant in Arunachal next week
PM Narendra Modi likely to inaugurate greenfield airport, 600 MW power plant in Arunachal next week
Source: IANS
20/10/2022 11:47:03 AM
Work for Puducherry airport's runway expansion on, AAI prepares project DPR Work for expansion of Puducherry airport's runway is on and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) is preparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the same. Puducherry Civil Aviation minister Lakshminarayanan while speaking to IANS said, "A technical team of the AAI had visited the Union Territory in January 2022 and had assessed the details of the land requirement and a master plan has been prepared as a follow up of this visit." He said that there would be land acquisitio...
Work for Puducherry airport's runway expansion on, AAI prepares project DPR
Work for Puducherry airport's runway expansion on, AAI prepares project DPR
Source: IANS
3/06/2022 4:45:35 PM
Tamil Nadu demands revenue share from AAI when airports are privatised With the central government looking at privatisation of airports, the Tamil Nadu government has taken a policy decision that it should have a share in the revenue realised by the former while transferring the airport. According to the policy note presented by the Tamil Nadu Industries Minister Thangam Thennarasu to the Assembly on Tuesday, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is actively pursuing the policy of privatisation of airports. "Therefore, a decision has been taken that i...
Tamil Nadu demands revenue share from AAI when airports are privatised
Tamil Nadu demands revenue share from AAI when airports are privatised
Source: IANS
20/04/2022 4:08:00 PM
Pune Airport to get swank new Integrated Terminal Building in 18 months The new Integrated Terminal Building with world-class facilities and enhanced capacity is 55 percent ready and scheduled for completion in 18 months, officials said here on Wednesday. Being built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at a cost of Rs 475 crore, it will be spread over 750,000 square feet, including the existing terminal building that has 250,000 square feet. This will increase and nearly double the capacity handling of the Pune Airport Integrated Terminal Building from...
Pune Airport to get swank new Integrated Terminal Building in 18 months
Pune Airport to get swank new Integrated Terminal Building in 18 months
Source: IANS
17/03/2022 9:07:42 AM