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Phase two will see the construction of two more narrowbody hangars, allowing CIAL personnel to work on a maximum of six aircraft at a time.
In partnership with UK-based Alpha, CIAL has constructed the biggest duty free shop in India with three shops totalling 15,000sqft dotted around the international terminal. “The airport cannot sustain itself without non-aeronautical revenue; being an airport with 15,000 stakeholders we have to invest in property to provide a return for stakeholders, and we can ensure that with these projects,” explains Venkiteswaran Ranganathan, executive director of finance at CIAL. Construction work has also begun on a helipad facility to act as a hub for a regional helicopter transport service. The greenfield Chandigarh International
Airport being developed by the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) in the state of Punjab will be the centre of a 1,000-acre mixed use “aerocity”, divided into several thousand individual plots for commercial and residential uses. Also within Kerala, the proposed Kannur International Airport will be developed as a private airport on the Cochin International Airport model by a government led consortium. Built on 2,060 acres of land and
equipped with a single runway, the project will be implemented on a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) basis and a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) model. “The Kannur International Airport
project includes plans to build commercial non-aeronautical projects that
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Upcoming greenfield airports in India: Mopa (Goa) Navi Mumbai
Sindhudurg (Maharashtra) Bijapur Simoga
Hassan Gulbarga (Karnataka) Dabra (Madhya Pradesh) Saras Paladi
range from cargo and logistics facilities, golf courses, and business parks,” says KS Shibu Kumar, deputy project engineer for Kannur International Airport. “We intend to link the airport to Kannur via rail link. Preliminary discussions have been held with Indian Railways to discuss setting up Kannur Airport Railway Station within the airport premises. We also plan to set up a international convention centre for conducting business meetings and accommodating conference delegates,” adds Kumar. Designed to be a low-cost carrier and multi-modal hub, a new international airport at Jaipur is expected to play a key part in the wider Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a 1,483km strip where freight chains from six states will converge.
A multi-modal hub and aerotropolis, Jaipur will play a big part in the developing Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, where freight links will converge and pass through the states of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharastra. So what about the future? More airport cities and aerotropolis can be expected to develop in the coming years. Some 61 regional airports have either been completed, are in development or
Ramsinghpur (Rajasthan) Durgapur (West Bengal) Karaikal (Puducherry) Kushinagar (Uttar Pradesh)
are soon to begin, according to the Airports Authority of India (AAI). Richard Chinn, director of aviation India at Mott Macdonald, says a rich source of future aerotropolis development will be the 14 greenfield airports that have been approved by AAI.
According to Chinn, airports operators are looking to subsidise construction and running costs through SEZs and many of the private developers who are involved in these projects are more interested in the 2,000-3,000 acres that surround the airports because of their commercial value. “A lot of the funding for these non-metro airport projects is going to come from revenue from commercial land development,” says Chinn.
“But the problem is these ambitions don’t always match the connectivity and the need; you require a lot of surface access to make these projects a success,” he adds. Last year, Minister of Civil Aviation,
Praful Patel, said he was going to recommend the Airports Authority of India Act 1994 be amended to allow public and private airport operators to pursue more non-aeronautical land development projects. So watch this space.
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