Centre to issue EoI for AIAPS within next 2 months: Official
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Rohit Vaid ( IANS) |
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Fri, Feb 19 2021 16:12 IST |
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An Air India flight with 331 passengers from Britain landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad early Tuesday. It later took off with another 87 passengers for Delhi, from where they will be airlifted to the US. Air India flight AI. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Feb 19 : After receiving interest for Air India, Centre now plans to invite bids for the national carrier s ground handling company Air India Airport Services within the next 2 months.
Accordingly, the express of interest (EoI) will be issued soon within the next two months, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola told IANS.
The government plans to invite bids to privatise six to 10 state-run airports in the first quarter of the next fiscal, with plans for a “package” offer that clubs profitable and non-profitable airports to realise optimum value.
“AAI is examining giving non-profitable airport and profit making airports as a package. We could see six to 10 airports being taken up. The airports will be given to the private sector for 50 years,” Pradeep Kharola, secretary, ministry of civil aviation said on Thursday.
The bidding terms for the operation of the airports, their management as well as the development of infrastructure will be structured to encourage long-term leases of the facilities.