Airports in INDIA
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Total Airports in INDIA
The cities of Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi and Mumbai are served by privately (or joint-venture) operated airports. All operational airports handled a total of 108.9 million passengers (77.3 m domestic and 31.6 m international) in the year ended March 2009. The total number of aircraft movements amounted to 1.31 million and freight volumes were at 1.7 million tons.
Mumbai and Delhi airports handled 23.4 million and 22.8 m passengers respectively in 2008-09 and were ranked the world's 55th and 61st busiest airports respectively for the year 2006. During the first half of 2009-10 Delhi airport handled 12.2 m passengers compared to Mumbai airport's 12.1 m passengers during the same period. The modernisation costs for the two airports has been estimated at Rs 89 bn (phase I) for Delhi and Rs 76 bn for Mumbai. A greenfield airport located in Navi Mumbai is being planned for Mumbai as the scope to expand the current airport at Santa Cruz is limited in the long run due to its location amidst dense urban habitation and lack of available land for expansion requirements.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed an initial 30-year OMDA (Operation, Management and Development Agreement) with GMR-Fraport AG and GVK-ACSA (Airports Company of South Africa) led consortiums for the development and expansion of the airports at Delhi and Mumbai. The Mott MacDonald Group was appointed as the technical advisor for the Delhi airport modernisation project. HOK International was appointed to design the airport. The 480,000 m² integrated terminal 3 with 55 airbridges (six of which are designed to accomodate Airbus A380 aircraft) and 30 remote stands at Delhi will have an initial capacity to handle upto 35 million passengers per annum. Terminal 3 is expected to be commissioned in July 2010. A third ILS Cat. IIIb runway (11R/29L and 4,430 m long) is operational. A new interim domestic terminal (1C), located between the current domestic terminals 1A (used by Indian and Kingfisher) and the old terminal 1B (used earlier by all the other domestic airlines) replaced the old 1B terminal in 2009. The current international terminal 2 has been modernised. A highspeed rail link connecting the airport with New Delhi station is projected to be ready in the latter half of 2010. Mumbai airport is India's busiest having handled an average of some 623 daily aircraft movements during the period Apr-Oct 2009 and a record (among Indian airports) 2.58 million passengers in Dec '09.
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Total Airports in INDIA
The government owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) operates 125 airports and civil enclaves out of a total of 449 airports and airstrips located throughout India.
The cities of Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi and Mumbai are served by privately (or joint-venture) operated airports. All operational airports handled a total of 108.9 million passengers (77.3 m domestic and 31.6 m international) in the year ended March 2009. The total number of aircraft movements amounted to 1.31 million and freight volumes were at 1.7 million tons.
Mumbai and Delhi airports handled 23.4 million and 22.8 m passengers respectively in 2008-09 and were ranked the world's 55th and 61st busiest airports respectively for the year 2006. During the first half of 2009-10 Delhi airport handled 12.2 m passengers compared to Mumbai airport's 12.1 m passengers during the same period. The modernisation costs for the two airports has been estimated at Rs 89 bn (phase I) for Delhi and Rs 76 bn for Mumbai. A greenfield airport located in Navi Mumbai is being planned for Mumbai as the scope to expand the current airport at Santa Cruz is limited in the long run due to its location amidst dense urban habitation and lack of available land for expansion requirements.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed an initial 30-year OMDA (Operation, Management and Development Agreement) with GMR-Fraport AG and GVK-ACSA (Airports Company of South Africa) led consortiums for the development and expansion of the airports at Delhi and Mumbai. The Mott MacDonald Group was appointed as the technical advisor for the Delhi airport modernisation project. HOK International was appointed to design the airport. The 480,000 m² integrated terminal 3 with 55 airbridges (six of which are designed to accomodate Airbus A380 aircraft) and 30 remote stands at Delhi will have an initial capacity to handle upto 35 million passengers per annum. Terminal 3 is expected to be commissioned in July 2010. A third ILS Cat. IIIb runway (11R/29L and 4,430 m long) is operational. A new interim domestic terminal (1C), located between the current domestic terminals 1A (used by Indian and Kingfisher) and the old terminal 1B (used earlier by all the other domestic airlines) replaced the old 1B terminal in 2009. The current international terminal 2 has been modernised. A highspeed rail link connecting the airport with New Delhi station is projected to be ready in the latter half of 2010. Mumbai airport is India's busiest having handled an average of some 623 daily aircraft movements during the period Apr-Oct 2009 and a record (among Indian airports) 2.58 million passengers in Dec '09.
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