Government Aproves Leasing Out of Three Airports

The operations and management of airports at Mangaluru, Lucknow and Ahmedabad will soon be taken over by the Adani Group. The group will look after all services at these airports, barring air traffic control, communication, navigation and surveillance services. The transfer of services to the private sector will mean that passengers will have to pay more for using facilities such as parking, purchasing eats and using facilities at these airports. This follows the Union Cabinet’s nod for leasing these airports under a private-public partnership model.

The three other airports for which the Adani Group emerged as the winner in February are Guwahati, Jaipur and Thiruvananthapuram. At that time the government had decided that the award of contract will only be given to the group after the Union Cabinet gave its nod.