India s private airport operators have urged the Centre to provide them relief amidst an extremely challenging environment."Relief measures are required not only to ensure sustaining operations at airports, but also needed to save jobs and .
PPP airport operators seek ‘cash support’ from government to pay staff and sustain operations
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PPP airport operators seek ‘cash support’ from government to pay staff and sustain operations
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / May 22, 2021, 00:10 IST
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NEW DELHI: India’s private airport operators, including those in four metros, have sought cash support from the government to sustain operations. The urgent SOS, among other things, is to seek salary support for airport employees to avoid any possible loss of employment due to sustained low level of operations for such a long period.
The Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO) earlier this week sent an 11-point communication to Union aviation ministry amid the Covid catastrophe in India that has dealt a body blow to aviation as both international and domestic air travel have crashed. Struggling to sustain operations, concerned for a much deeper financial impact this year. It h
Airline and airport staff in India, too, could get vaccinated on priority like their counterparts in Dubai and Singapore. While the Karnataka government has already included airport employees in the state in the list of frontline workers for Covid-19 vaccination, the civil aviation ministry has also initiated steps in this regard. The civil aviation ministry has written to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to add in the guidelines and issue directions to the concerned, a senior official said. Airline and airport staff who are having interface with passengers & handling cargo would be given the priority. Currently, doctors, nurses, and all hospital staff are being administered the Covid-19 vaccines across India. Over a million doses have already been given in the first week of vaccination.
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NEW DELHI: The Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO) has asked the health ministry to include all airport employees in the priority list for Covid vaccination drive “to ensure the wellbeing of both the staff members as well as the traveling public.”
Pointing out that people working at airports “have been frontline warriors … even as they faced dual risks of infection and social ostracism given the panic in the broader society during the time (early months of Covid),” the association has told the government “inoculating airport staff would help minimise possible risk of infection during air travel due to asymptomatic carriers.”
Allow foreign tourists for us to sustain operations: PPP airports to govt
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This story is from December 17, 2020
Allow foreign tourists for us to sustain operations: PPP airports to govt
Saurabh Sinha / TNN / Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 20:40 IST
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Tourists in Delhi s Paharganj
NEW DELHI: The PPP (public private partnership) airport operators and travel industry has asked the government to reopen the doors for foreign tourists. A task force set up by the government with representatives from airlines, airports and airlines has also recommended re-opening for tourist visa and creating air bubbles with more countries.
The Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO) has told the aviation ministry the six metro airports saw 16 lakh international passengers in April to September, 2020, 7% of the 2.2 crore witnessed in same period last year. “While we welcome the step taken by the government in relaxing visa and travel restrictions for forei