17/08/2022
Interesting Fact - India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world and the largest in South Asia with almost 70 percent domestic traffic.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is the nodal body responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure in the country. Under the PPP agreement, AAI has partnered with various private players to manage and develop major airports in the country. India has close to 150 airports in the country and most of the major airports are operating above their functional capacity.
While we will a surge of modern airports in the coming years, including the ones in Noida, Navi Mumbai, Goa among others, the current lot of airports are among the best in the region. Airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad are often awarded as the best in the region and also in the world. Among these, Delhi Airport is the largest & busiest airport in the country. While the world’s largest airports suffer from congestion, Indian airports are credited with managing crowds effortlessly.
PM Narendra Modi led NDA government announced the ambitious Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS-UDAN) to connect Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities of India. Under the same, many small towns with no air connectivity are now connected to major cities of India.
AAI has sanctioned 948 routes to boost regional connectivity and almost half of the proposed routes are operational till 2022.
