After the launch, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said similar weather stations will be installed at Jewar, Varanasi, Ahmedabad, and other airports. In a major fillip to aviation safety, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has become the first airport in the country to deploy its own next‑generation weather station. The advanced, integrated aviation weather intelligence and...
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We have planned Rs.17,500 crore capex
AAI, being the extended arm of the government, is geared-up to address the huge traffic growth that the country is witnessing. As per the forecasts, the growth is expected to continue in the future.
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Delhi Airport second best among worldÂ’s biggest airports
GMR Group-led Delhi International Airport has announced that Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has become the world’s second-best airport in the largest airport category — with passenger capacity of over 40 million passengers per annum (MPPA) — as per the Airports Council International (ACI) ASQ 2016 rankings.
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The aviation regulator needs a complete revamp
The decision of the Government of India to spend $10 billion towards airport infrastructure development is a critical move. India is one the few nations in the globe which has recorded a year-on-year passenger growth of nearly 23 per cent.
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Aviation Infrastructure: Security infra in airports
As airport security took centrestage in aviation after the 9/11 and other forms of terror attacks, Inderjit Singh says a national security infrastructure is now a pre-requisite to growth.Of the Rs 650,000 crore that the Indian government has budgeted in 2011-12 towards transportation, Rs 70,000 crore is budgeted for the development of greenfield airports and upgrade of existing airports and a major portion of it would be from the private sector, financial institutions and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).