{"id":218214,"date":"2022-12-13T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218214"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:06:53","slug":"fixing-indias-airports-it-needs-more-world-class-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fixing-indias-airports-it-needs-more-world-class-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing India’s airports: It needs more world-class terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cFixing India’s airports: It needs more world-class terminals\u201d <\/strong>published in the Business Standard <\/b>on 13th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the present condition of Indian airports.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recent visit of the Union Civil Aviation Minister to Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has resulted in few minor changes to processes at the airport. A large proportion of the plan consists of asking airlines to cancel or move flights. But this is not a sustainable solution.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges faced by Indian Airports?<\/h5>\n

-Despite various attempts to increase airport capacity, the ability of India\u2019s terminals to absorb passenger growth is lacking.<\/p>\n

–Poor processes, customer-unfriendly approach, and additional red tape<\/strong> have reduced effective airport capacity in recent years.<\/p>\n

-There is not enough manpower <\/strong>and checkpoints are poorly manned<\/strong>. So, additional checkpoints are being introduced. This resulted in long queues for passengers. For instance, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has not assigned enough manpower.<\/p>\n

–Under-provision of infrastructure<\/strong>: For example, the newly built airport for north Goa at Mopa is supposed to be able to handle only 4.4 million passengers a year. This is less than the number of passengers passing through another airport at Dabolim currently.<\/p>\n

–Low terminal count<\/strong>: Soon, Delhi and Mumbai will both be among the 10 busiest airports in the world. Their global peers have half a dozen terminals to aid passenger movements. On the other hand, Delhi has only one world-class terminal, Terminal 3, and that is now more than 10 years old.<\/p>\n

What should be done to improve the smooth functioning of Indian Airports?<\/h5>\n

Improve manpower<\/strong>: This has to be done from\u00a0immigration officials to the CISF to the airport authority to operators to ground-handling companies to airlines<\/p>\n

Improve capacity<\/strong>: Like their global peers, all metropolitan cities in India should have at least two airports with at least six to seven terminals among them.<\/p>\n

Further, India should create a long-term plan for airport sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cFixing India’s airports: It needs more world-class terminals\u201d published in the Business Standard on 13th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Infrastructure. Relevance: About the present condition of Indian airports. News: Recent visit of the Union Civil Aviation Minister to Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has resulted in… Continue reading Fixing India’s airports: It needs more world-class terminals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-218214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702444034},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}