After TN, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand seek revenue share when airports are privatised

TBM Staff - Mumbai Monday, 25 April 2022, 4:30 PM

Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have come out in support of Tamil Nadu’s (TN) stance that whenever the Central government privatises an airport in a state, the state government should get a share in the revenue. In a policy note issued earlier this month, Tamil Nadu said that if the state government Continue Reading

Parliamentary Panel tells Centre to give CISF Cover to all operational airports

TBM Staff - Mumbai Friday, 1 April 2022, 4:30 PM

Only 64 of the over 100 operational airports in the country enjoy the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) cover, a Parliamentary Panel that undertook a detailed examination of safety at Indian airports has found, reports Amandeep Shukla in TOI. In its report presented to the parliament on Thursday, the panel headed by MP T G […]Continue Reading

Have mandated carbon-mapping of each Indian airport to understand emissions: Scindia

TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 31 March 2022, 2:30 PM

Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday said he has mandated that each airport in India must conduct a carbon-mapping exercise to get an idea about its direct and indirect emissions, reports PTI. Commercial aviation is responsible for about two to three per cent of the global carbon emissions. In his speech at an event […]Continue Reading

Thailand prepares airports for quarantine-free travellers after 2 years of Covid

TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 21 October 2021, 9:56 AM

Thai government officials on October 20 inspected the readiness of the country’s airports to welcome quarantine-free travellers, due to return next month after almost two years of strict Covid-19 rules that halted vital tourism. From Nov. 1, the country will allow vaccinated arrivals from low risk countries to return to its popular destinations like Pattaya, […]Continue Reading

Airports in India record 35% more passengers in August

Prasenjit Chakraborty Monday, 27 September 2021, 1:00 PM

Indian airports catered to about 14.26 million passengers in August, a 35% increase sequentially, highlighting a sustained recovery in air travel demand in line with economic recovery and the progress on vaccinations. The airports had catered to around 10.53 million passengers in July, according to data from the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the state-run […]Continue Reading

Govt to monetise 25 airports over four years, to fetch INR 20,782 crore

TBM Staff - Mumbai Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 2:47 PM

The government will sell its shareholding in four privately-run airports (Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru) and is tentatively valuing its stake at INR 10,000 crore. The stake sale in these four airports, along with monetisation of 25 other Airports Authority of India (AAI)-run airports, including those in Chennai and Kozhikode, is a part of the […]Continue Reading