Mittu Chandilya, CEO, AirAsia India, has said that he would support the reopening the HAL Bangalore International Airport for commercial operations, and also urge the Centre to focus more on low-cost airports. He was interacting with management students of a college in the city yesterday, as per a report in Business Standard.
While there have been many such instances of various stakeholders in the society urging the Centre to open the HAL Airport again for civilian use, the water-tight clause in the agreement, which has been entered into by the GVK-led Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), which runs the expansive international airport on the outskirts of the city, will make it difficult for a second airport within a 150-km radius.
While Chandilya also voiced aviation industries’ main concern on the high taxation on aviation turbine fuel, he said, he is bullish on the Indian aviation industry as the number of people flying for a population of 1.2 billion is just 100 million. He believes it’s the right time to invest in aviation as the industry is at rock bottom and it’s only going to grow from here.
22/08/14 TravelBizMonitor
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While there have been many such instances of various stakeholders in the society urging the Centre to open the HAL Airport again for civilian use, the water-tight clause in the agreement, which has been entered into by the GVK-led Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), which runs the expansive international airport on the outskirts of the city, will make it difficult for a second airport within a 150-km radius.
While Chandilya also voiced aviation industries’ main concern on the high taxation on aviation turbine fuel, he said, he is bullish on the Indian aviation industry as the number of people flying for a population of 1.2 billion is just 100 million. He believes it’s the right time to invest in aviation as the industry is at rock bottom and it’s only going to grow from here.
22/08/14 TravelBizMonitor
