The government is expected to firm up, next week, its position on equity participation in two proposed companies for privatisation and modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, official sources said on Friday.\n\n\n\n
The state-owned airport authority is conducting a techno-feasibility study.
The airport has formulated standard operating procedures for post-lockdown safety of the passengers, which include social distancing, stringent thermal screening, positioning temporary quarantine centres and also continues to sanitise and disinfect the airport to ensure safety and well-being of the passengers when operations resume.
The state-owned operator had earlier built airports in Libya and Yemen.
The high commission of India in Dhaka and the assistant high commissions in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna have been assisting in the voluntary return of Indian nationals, he said.
Here stood a man who embodied the legacy of whatever Brand Tata stood for, embellished it, and departed into the long night, leaving the brand legacy for others to further enrich, notes R Gopalakrishnan.
Delhi International Airport Ltd move likely to impact revenue flow to government kitty.
Heavy rains continued to pound Chennai and nearby districts on Monday under the impact of a cyclonic storm, which is likely to cross the coast in Andhra Pradesh on December 5.
The Communist Party of India on Thursday demanded in the Lok Sabha that the existing airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore should not be closed down to "protect interest of private sector".
Delhi International Airport, a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure, will absorb all general employees of Airports Authority of India, working at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. There are over 2,300 general employees of AAI.
Leading Indian corporates Reliance, Bharti and Videocon along with seven other consortiums entered the race for the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, bids for which closed on Tuesday.
Paving the way for development of the first-ever 'greenfield airport' in the country, the government signed a concession agreement with Bangalore International Airport Company Ltd for it to come up at Devanahalli in Karnataka over the next 33 months.
As Odisha and West Bengal are bracing for a severe cyclonic storm, governments of both states started evacuating people and while deciding to close educational institutions in vulnerable areas.
Overlooking opposition from the Left parties and airport employees, the government on Tuesday signed two agreements to set up joint venture companies between Airports Authority of India and the GMR and GVK groups.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for private participation in the construction of international airport in Bangalore.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, which is monitoring individual airports' adherence to safety standards, is in the process of issuing licenses to three airports based on their security compliance.
There are 394 unserved and 16 under-served airports in the country.
Minister of state for aviation Mahesh Sharma said that his ministry has requested the airlines to maintain price cap in this time of crisis.
Hochtief Airport GmbH, which has tied up with Piramal Holdings India Ltd and L&T Holdings in its bid for the airport modernisation process, is interested in developing the Mumbai airport.
The unnamed 24-year-old suspect worked at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and is said to have charged customers GBP 25,000 per trip to abuse a loophole and fly them across the British Airways network without crucial visa documents.
At least five people were killed in separate rain-related incidents on Tuesday in Bengaluru, which has been reeling under incessant rains for the past three days causing widespread flooding in several residential areas and turning roads into virtual rivers.
A new greenfield airport will come up at Sriperumbudur and Tiruvallur taluks near Chennai, while there are expansion plans for the existing airport at Meenambakkam, according to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.
Indian Air Force fighter planes will be on standby to keep a close watch on any suspicious activity in the Delhi sky, including UAVs or drones, as the national capital gets ready to host the G20 summit, a senior official from a department engaged in airport operations said.
New Delhi will overtake Mumbai as India's busiest airport by 2010. The gap between passengers using the two airports is closing, with more aircraft landing and leaving Delhi than Mumbai for both domestic and international travel.
The employees associated with various unions of AAI have formed a joint forum and started the three-day-long strike in front of the Civil Aviation Ministry at Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan here and at AAI offices across the country.
Moving ahead with modernisation of non-metro airports, government would, in the next two months, come out with proposals for development of non-aero side of 10 such airports across the country, a top official said on Friday.
A Romanian aircraft carrying 275 passengers, mostly Indians, on Monday left for India four days after they were detained by the French authorities at an airport near Paris over suspected 'human trafficking'.
The Kozhikode international airport at nearby Karipur in Mallapuram district of Kerala, which had been temporarily shutdown after violence erupted on Wednesday night following the death of a Central Industrial Security Force jawan, began operations on Thursday morning with arrival of two flights.
The Rs 1,808-crore modernisation and expansion plan for Chennai airport, which was recently cleared by the Public Investment Board and expected to begin this September, may not be sufficient to cope with projected growth in passenger traffic.
In fact, it is estimated that by 2026, over one-third of Delhi's total projected traffic (82.7 million) will be diverted to Greater Noida airport (28.4 million), and by 2036 when DIAL expects to handle nearly 100 million traffic, Greater Noida will attract 82.7 million passengers.
At the airport, Joseph was received by the regional passport officer.
The Bench while declining to stay the reported agreement recalled its own order that any action taken in this regard would be subject to the court's final decision on the tender controversy.\n\n
The Centre will come out with a policy by next year that will prescribe guidelines to state governments, private investors and Airports Authority of India for building airports. This was announced by the Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel at an Assocham function to discuss the need for building aerotropolis (cities around the airport).
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