Last week, GMR led consortium which runs the country’s biggest airport – Delhi international Airport, came up with a detailed plan for the expansion of the airport. This multi-phase plan looks like a culmination of last few years of planning…
Bengaluru Airport completes Runway up-gradation, Jet Airways set to increase flights
Bengaluru International Airport, which saw change in ownership recently, has concluded the runway upgradation work. The airport announced the increase in runway capacity to 38 Air Traffic Movements per hour as compared to 34 prior to the commissioning of two…
New Delhi airport joins the 50 million passengers club
The Indira Gandhi International Airport, still popularly called IGI by many, crossed 50 million passengers in calendar year 2016. The airport handled 55.64 million passengers and was 12th worldwide by passengers in November. It is an achievement which makes the…
Suggestion – Slot allocation at Civil Enclaves in India
Indian Aviation is unique but when this argument goes global, the aviation scene is compared with markets similar to India. More often than not, all fast growing markets get classified together – Indonesia, India, Kazakhstan and so on. Cheap Fares,…
Airport Closures could hurt Airlines in India
Airlines may see decrease in traffic as flights are cancelled or re-routed If there is anything which can stop the worlds fast growing aviation market, it is infrastructure! The industry which could tide over effects of demonetization and could handle…
Mumbai Airport introduces India’s first Self Bag-Drop
Indian airports are traditionally slower to embrace Information Technology led solutions and hence Hindustan Times report in April 2016 about Jet Airways & Air India planning to automate check-in at T2 at Mumbai Airport was a pleasant surprise. (Link: No…
Runway re-carpeting & airport closures could apply brakes on 20% growth of Indian Aviation
A few days before the headlines talked about Indian Aviation closing 2015 with 20% growth, there appeared news of what could be potential derailment of that growth in 2016. (Runway repair may disrupt flight schedule, Runways to close during peak…