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AAI to embark on study to assess capacity at 48 airports
News:
- Airports Authority of India (AAI) is set to commence a study to assess the capacity of 48 airports.
Important Facts:
- The AAI is in the process of selecting a consultant to conduct the survey.
- Status of airport passenger in India:
- All the airports together handled a total of 309 million passengers in 2017-2018
- The current capacity of all airports is 334 million.
- AAI has forecast a demand of approximately 636 million passengers by 2026-2027.
- AAI is looking forward to:
- Initiate the strategic action to cope with the forecast traffic
- To provide required infrastructure and services to its stakeholders at all times
- The AAI will start the study of airports which include:
- Ahmedabad, Pune and Goa, which handle between 5 million and 10 million passengers per annum.
- The airports of Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Bhubaneshwar
- According to a report by CAPA, India needs to invest up to $45 billion on additional capacity to handle 500-600 million air passengers by 2030.
