Airports Privatisation: AAI chairman mark 13 airports to bid out on PPP
"We have sent a list of 13 airports to the aviation ministry that are to be bid out on PPP (public-private partnership)."AAI Chairman told ET.
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New Delhi: After the privatization of Air India now Government is focusing on the privatization process for 13 airports under the state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI), by the end of this fiscal year.
AAI chairman Sanjeev Kumar told ET, "We have sent a list of 13 airports to the aviation ministry that are to be bid out on PPP (public-private partnership). The plan is to complete the bidding of these airports by the end of this fiscal."
"The model to be followed for bidding would be the per-passenger revenue model. This model has been used earlier and is successful and the Jewar airport (in Greater Noida) was also bid out on the same model," he said.
Earlier in September AAI board approved six major airports for privatization including Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Trichy, Indore, Raipur—along with seven smaller airports.
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