The Modi government will start work on a plan to build second airports at all airports, where the primary airports have saturated or reaching saturation, a government official announced at an ET event.
“That is a very valid suggestion. We are thinking about it, as Airports Authority of India (AAI) has its hands full. The management of Ahmedabad and Jaipur airports are being awarded under public-private partnership (PPP). The line of thinking is there but nothing is concrete as of now,” Anil Srivastava, joint secretary, civil aviation ministry told at a panel discussion at Economic Times Global Business Summit.
Srivastava’s response was to a question by panel moderator Amber Dubey head of aviation and aerospace at KPMG.
Apart from Srivastava and Dubey, the panel constituted Ashwani Lohani, CMD, Air India, Rajiv Jain, CEO, Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), Kapil Kaul, CEO and Director at Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, Palash Roychowdhury, Managing Director, Pratt & Whitney (P&W), Ajay Mehra, Managing Director, Airbus and K S Kunwar, Director General, Air Cargo Forum India.
The panel discussed ‘Regional connectivity and affordable airline solutions’ and suggestions ranged on making the regional connectivity scheme simplified and developing secondary airports to make the scheme successful.