Air Deccan talks to states for cheaper airports

New Delhi: Leading no-frills carrier Air Deccan today said it was in talks with infrastructure developer GMR Group, the Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka governments for constructing low cost airports.
"We are in preliminary discussion with GMR Group asking them to build low cost airports," Air Deccan Managing Director Capt G R Gopinath told reporters in a video conference from Bangalore.
He, however, clarified that the airline would not be participating financially in the develpoment of such low cost airports."We will assure direct daily connections to these places," he said.
Gopinath also said he had approached Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Governments to build airports for low cost carriers in these states.
The Andhra government has in principle agreed to develop three such airports in the state.
13/10/06 Financial Express

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