Low airport capacity worries aviation insiders: Jagmohan Garg
he Indian government currently has 'no vision' in airport infrastructure and the mammoth aircraft orders by airlines pitted against paucity of airport space will create 'a crisis' for the industry in the coming years, said Jagmohan Garg, the country's second busiest and most congested airport.
'The way aircraft are being ordered, I don't know where they will be parked, where they will fly. All major airports will be constrained in the next five years. There will be a crisis,' said Rajeev Jain at the CAPA India Aviation Summit 2017.
He said several airport modernisation projects haven't been enough to handle growing traffic. He gave the example of Guwahati and Madurai which have been saturated even before their expansion was completed by the state-run Airports Authority of India.
ET had in July last year estimated that the aggressive fleet expansion by Indian carriers may far outstrip the growth in demand for air travel, forcing airlines to take a hit on yields. The additional capacity will also be difficult to sustain unless airport infrastructure in the country is rapidly developed.
Indian carriers currently have 880 planes on order, of which 600-650 are expected to be delivered over the next ten years, around 30% of which will be for replacement, said a recent note by CAPA Centre for Aviation, a Sydney-based consultant.
Earlier in the day, Vistara's chief operating officer Sanjiv Kapoor said constraints in airport capacity was the 'elephant in the room' which had to be addressed.
Jagmohan Garg travel news updates here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/low-airport-capacity-worries-aviation-insiders/articleshow/57052890.cms
'The way aircraft are being ordered, I don't know where they will be parked, where they will fly. All major airports will be constrained in the next five years. There will be a crisis,' said Rajeev Jain at the CAPA India Aviation Summit 2017.
He said several airport modernisation projects haven't been enough to handle growing traffic. He gave the example of Guwahati and Madurai which have been saturated even before their expansion was completed by the state-run Airports Authority of India.
ET had in July last year estimated that the aggressive fleet expansion by Indian carriers may far outstrip the growth in demand for air travel, forcing airlines to take a hit on yields. The additional capacity will also be difficult to sustain unless airport infrastructure in the country is rapidly developed.
Indian carriers currently have 880 planes on order, of which 600-650 are expected to be delivered over the next ten years, around 30% of which will be for replacement, said a recent note by CAPA Centre for Aviation, a Sydney-based consultant.
Earlier in the day, Vistara's chief operating officer Sanjiv Kapoor said constraints in airport capacity was the 'elephant in the room' which had to be addressed.
Jagmohan Garg travel news updates here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/low-airport-capacity-worries-aviation-insiders/articleshow/57052890.cms
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