The Gautam Adani-led business house entered the airport sector in 2019. Rs 30k-cr Capex Plan for Airports Incubated within Adani Enterprises, Adani Airports won the mandate to modernise and operate six airports – Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram – through the Airports Authority of India’s tendering process. The unit has become the country’s top airport platform, catering to at least 10% of India’s air passenger traffic, exceeding 200 million people in FY20. In August last year, the group announced that it had acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport (MIAL), which runs Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. This gave Adani ownership of the upcoming Navi Mumbai Airport, in which MIAL holds 74%. Adani Airports has debt of Rs 4,100 crore while that of AEL amounts to Rs 15,293 crore.