Adani Group takes over operations of Jaipur International Airport

On October 11, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) handed over the duties of the Jaipur International Airport to Adani Group. The group will handle the Airport for 50 years. JS Balhara, Airport Director, handed over the Airport’s symbolic key to Vishnu Jha, Chief Airport Officer Adani Jaipur International Ltd. Balhara mentioned that the corporate would deal with the operations, administration and growth of the Airport underneath the PPP mannequin.
Notably, two months in the past, the corporate had began an statement program on the Jaipur Airport to assemble particulars concerning the functioning of the Airport. Out of 250 staff, 150 have been absorbed by the Adani Group, stories recommend.
In 2018, Adani Group had received the bid to ‘operate, manage and develop’ the Jaipur airport together with that of Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati and Mangaluru for a interval of fifty years. Adani Group had received the bids by providing the very best quantities in direction of per-passenger price (PPF), and its provided PPF for Jaipur was ₹174, whereas GMR had provided solely ₹69 for the airport.
Jaipur International Airport is situated within the southern suburb of Sanganer, round 13 km from Jaipur in Congress-ruled Rajasthan. The airport was granted the standing of a world airport in December 2005. The civil apron of the airport can accommodate 14 plane and the brand new terminal constructing can deal with as much as 1,000 passengers at a time. Its 3,407-meter lengthy runway can deal with bigger plane like Boeing 747 and Boeing 777, and it’s CAT-IIIB instrument touchdown system (ILS) compliant. The airport has two terminals, Terminal 1 handles home flights in addition to Hajj flights. Terminal 2 is used for worldwide flights.
Adani Group will take over the operations at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport from October 14, 2021. The Ahmedabad-based enterprise conglomerate had delayed taking up Jaipur Airport and had sought a six-month extension until December 2021 to take over Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports, citing the restrictions arising out of the covid-19 pandemic. But the federal government had given it three months to take over the administration. The airports at Mangaluru, Ahmedabad, and Lucknow have been already handed over to the corporate on October 31, November 2 and November 7, respectively. The group had taken over the Guwahati airport on October 8.
Therefore, after taking up Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, the Adani Group will full the method of taking management of all six airports if had received. The group additionally manages the Mumbai airport, after it purchased stakes within the firms that function the airport in July this 12 months.