A senior executive of GMR group confirmed that both the companies were keen to get out of the venture. Fraport has already closed its development office in India.
Dense fog disrupted normal operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi this morning with about 17 flights being delayed and another three cancelled.
The tests have to be conducted within 72 hours of undertaking the journey to India, Mandaviya said.
Dense fog disrupted flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Friday morning with 70 flights delayed and a dozen others cancelled.
The ones chosen for operation, management and development through a public-private partnership model are Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati.
Air India plans to launch services with three flights per week.
Air India to shift, unused capacity in existing bilaterals may be mobilised.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik, who is under attack for meeting terror outfit Lashker-e-Tayiba chief Hafeez Saeed in Pakistan, returned to India on Saturday amid protests by Shiv Sena activists at the airport in New Delhi.
AAI has 51% stake in the project while Punjab and Haryana have 24.5% equity each.
No flights have taken-off or landed after 8 am as the runway visibility dropped to 50 metres on both the runways due to dense fog that enveloped the airport early on Tuesday morning, airport sources said. About 12 incoming and outgoing morning flights were cancelled.
The runway visibility started to drop late Thursday night when fog started to descend on the airport. The general visibility dipped to zero while the runway visibility hovered between 50 to 100 metres, forcing the airport authorities to implement low visibility procedures for flights to operate using CAT-III B instrument landing system (ILS).
The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority on April 25 decided to raise airport charges, including UDF, by a whopping 346 per cent for two years, with airlines protesting the move and saying they and the passengers would have to face the brunt of the massive hike.
Security concerns prevent the largest hotel project in the country to take off.
ATC data show on an average airport capacity falls 40 per cent because of higher runway occupation time during the dense fog period.
Airlines flying in from any airport in China including Hong Kong have been asked to make in-flight announcements requesting passengers with history of fever and cough and travel to Wuhan city in the past 14 days to self-declare at the port of arrival in order to facilitate early isolation, according to an official statement.
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on Friday announced in his Budget speech that two separate companies would be formed to raise the airports in Delhi and Mumbai to international standards.
T3 is the largest airport terminal in the country.
The government on Wednesday issued new guidelines for international arrivals amid the spread of mutant variants of coronavirus in many countries.
AERA says airport operator must go on its own to avoid revenue-sharing.
The court on Thursday directed the CBI to withdraw a Look-Out Circular issued against Patel in a case of an alleged violation of the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act and apologise to him.
The government is shortly going to move ahead with the process of developing airports at New Delhi and Mumbai to international standards, Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said on Friday.\n\n\n\n
According to Mumbai International Airport Limited spokesperson, the airport handled 3.04 million passengers in October and 3.15 million passengers in May. In December 2013, 2.9 million passengers passed through the Mumbai airport.
Large parts of north India reeled under numbing cold on Tuesday with the mercury remaining below freezing point at most places in Jammu and Kashmir, while dense fog in the early hours of the morning hit road and rail traffic movement.
Tata Group-owned Air India on Wednesday announced the launch of new flights connecting Mumbai with New York, Paris and Frankfurt, starting February next year. Besides, the full-service carrier also announced the resumption of non-stop flights connecting Delhi with Copenhagen, Milan and Vienna. The Mumbai-New York (JFK International Airport) daily service will commence from February 14 next year, Air India said.
Flight operations came to a standstill at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Friday due to dense fog, which reduced visibility to below 50 metres and affected the schedule of over 50 flights.
A blanket of thick fog enveloped the busy Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Sunday with visibility dropping to near zero and leading to delays, diversions and cancellation of 80 domestic and international flights.
The BJP lost 15 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2019. Union ministers have been deployed in all 15, tasked with turning the result around.
The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday criticised the increase in airport development charges imposed by Mumbai and New Delhi, saying the burden on the already beleaguered global airline industry is a 'wake up call' for the Indian government.
The Mumbai police have arrested a male passenger after a crew member of a Delhi-bound flight from Mumbai heard him talking about 'hijacking' on phone, an official said on Friday.
The first Airbus A-320 aircraft of Tata-SIA joint venture Vistara airline, painted with its logo and livery, landed at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on Wednesday, taking the carrier a step closer to its launch.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday said that in case there were no guidelines issued by the Centre, it expected the city government to expeditiously consider the issue of early re-testing of international travellers who test positive for COVID-19 on arrival.
Anti-sabotage checks are being carried out and patrolling has been intensified across the city, including on the Yamuna river where patrolling is being conducted on motor boats by the Delhi Police. Anti-terrorist measures are being carried out in view of threat perception and intelligence inputs, they said.
Indian students returned from Ukraine early on Wednesday morning following advisories issued by the Indian embassy in Kyiv amid rising Russia-Ukraine tensions.
Businesses have resumed but it's not business as usual in the capital city of Bangladesh.
The timing coincides with Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu's recent state visit to China, aimed at strengthening ties.
According to preliminary report on world airport traffic for 2011 by Airport Council International, passenger traffic in the Asia-Pacific region was recorded at 1.43 billion, an increase of 5.7 per cent for Asia-Pacific area when compared to 2010.
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Thursday admitted teething problems at the newly built international terminal at the Delhi Airport relating to congestion at peak hours and said that services are being improved continuously.
In a major concession to the Bangalore-based GMR-led consortium Delhi International Airport Ltd that is operating and upgrading Delhi airport, the government has allowed it to impose airport development fees on passengers that will help them raise up to Rs 1,827 crore over three years. The move also means that the government has forfeited its share of revenue since DIAL has been allowed to levy Airport Development Fees and not User Development Fees.
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