Airports at the country’s major metros will be able to handle about 500 million passengers a year, in the coming years, the union civil aviation secretary, Rajiv Bansal projected on Tuesday.
Speaking at the two-day CAPA India Aviation Summit 2023, the bureaucrat, underscoring the growth trajectory, insisted, ”There is no missing piece in the puzzle.”
Explaining the math, he said that between its three terminals and a fourth runway in the making, Delhi will have the annual capacity to take on 100 million passengers. This, along with the ongoing expansion at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru will make for 320 million passenger handling capacity in the six metros.
