Aviation Ministry considering proposal to restrict ground handling

New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry is contemplating restricting ground handling activities in six metro airports to a few players, including the Airports Authority of India or the Joint Venture companies working on modernising these airports.
Those who would be allowed to undertake these activities at these major metro airports, also include either Air-India and Indian or an independent agency to be selected through competitive bidding, official sources said.
For the remaining airports across the country, the present arrangement of allowing respective airlines to do the ground handling job would continue, the sources said.
The metro airports, where the Ministry is thinking of restricting the number of ground handling agencies, are Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
13/06/06 PTI/The Hindu

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