Every major Indian city to need second airport by 2030 – report
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Every major metropolitan area in India will need a second airport by 2025 or 2030, a new report has stated.
The ‘Maximising the contribution of aviation to the Indian economy’ study, which was produced by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) on behalf of TATA SIA Airlines, the parent company of Vistara, found that the development of new aviation infrastructure will need to be accelerated in the coming years, to cater for a sharp and sustained rise in passenger traffic.
According to CAPA’s forecast, by 2030 India’s airport traffic is expected to exceed 900 million. And with an annual growth of 10% from this level, there will be a need for an additional capacity of 90m annually. This, the report states, will require a “long-term national level policy, backed by adequate central assistance which will fasten the development of airport infrastructure”.
“To match pace with this projected growth, an enabling environment is required which needs the attention of the highest levels of government to establish a clear vision and roadmap for the sector,” the report said.
“In a country with low penetration of aviation, where only an estimated 1-2% of the population travel by air and the annual per capita seats are less than a quarter that of China, Indonesia or Thailand, the results of this nurturing could be transformative for the economy.”
The report goes on to call for the creation of a new “airports approval commission” to determine what kind of airports India requires, when and where they are required, and how much capacity is necessary.
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