Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Flying high, but not too far

Ahmedabad: In 2009-10, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (SVP) International Airport was among the country's fastest growing with foreign passenger traffic seeing a year-on-year growth of more than 20 per cent. Today, almost two years after the airport got a Rs 350-crore swanky makeover, it has seen one of the sharpest dips in the number of foreign passengers.
The city's SVP international airport has hit an air pocket in 2011-12 as it keeps longing for new international flights. In stark contrast, domestic passenger traffic continued to grow. All private airlines did good business at the Ahmedabad airport last year and will soon add additional flights to meet the demand.
But what no one is able to explain is the sorry picture for international flights. "Hardly any aircraft went empty when international flights to the US and the UK were introduced from Ahmedabad after 2007. Even the incoming traffic was healthy. But in a span of two years, Air India and Jet Airways shut down international operations," said an Ahmedabad airport official.
30/05/12 Ankur Jain/Times of India
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