AAI Airports

Under the contract, AAI can penalise DIAL for not maintaining service quality standards

A Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh was grounded after take-off on Monday due to a technical snag, an Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said here. The flight returned to Bhopal's Raja Bhoj International Airport after take-off due to the snag in the morning, he said. It was carrying 183 passengers, 117 of whom were adjusted in another aircraft in the evening by cancelling a Delhi-bound flight, the official informed. "The remaining passengers were adjusted on other flights and also by arranging accommodation," he added.

The new policy for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services includes leasing of land through open tenders and abolishing royalty charged by the AAI

Three committees of the Centre-run AAI in January found the Adani group to be in violation of branding norms, prescribed in the concession agreements, at airports in Ahmedabad, Mangaluru and Lucknow

Adani Group has won the bids for the six airports

Plans to abolish royalty, offer steep discounts in lease rent

The government-owned Aarogya Setu app gives colour coded-designation to users as per their health status and travel history. It helps the user know if he or she is near anyone who has tested positive

The AAI, which comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, owns and manages more than 100 airports across the country

The Tata Group's effective shareholding will now be 15 per cent in GMR Airports, translating into a shareholding of approximately 10 per cent in DIAL, said sources in the know

According to industry estimate, airlines in India have speeded up their aircraft acquisition plans. They will add at least 30 planes till December, of which 20 will be added by the first week of Nov

Last month, the government cleared a proposal for managing six AAI-run airports - Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Ahmedabad and Jaipur - on public-private partnership (PPP) basis

All the identified 20 sites are freshwater bodies - either a multipurpose dam or a perennial river

Aviation sector experts feel the airports chosen for privatisation will also get attractive bids

This would be done through Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee

It is for the first time that so many of AAI airports have bagged top positions in the coveted list

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is gearing up to provide passengers a better shopping and dining experience at 12 of its airports, which will boost its revenue. AAI has started floating separate requests for proposals (RFPs), inviting a master concessionaire to set up food and beverage (F&B) outlets, including at least an international and a national brand for smaller airports. There will be a separate bidding process for retail outlets, which will start from October 23. The 12 airports are Bhopal, Indore, Raipur, Lucknow, Calicut, Thiruvananthpuram, Trichy, Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Srinagar, Guwahati and Goa. "The concessionaire shall incur all capital expenditure in relation to the development, setting up, operation, maintenance and management of the F&B outlets," as per the RFP document. These airports currently have a handful of vendors which bid separately to set up food stalls and retail outlets. AAI now plans to bring them under a master concessionaire

These include Bhopal, Jaipur and Amritsar, which have regular flights