NEW DELHI: Privatising small airports would not be the right approach for the government as they need to be viable in terms of passenger size and growth projections, a senior official of GMR Airports said.
“If the government wants to look at privatising small airports, in my view that is not the right approach. The right approach would be that they look at privatising more profitable airports, which now they are doing,” Sidharath Kapur, executive director and board member, GMR Airports, said at CAPA India Airports Summit 2019 here.
The Central government has invited bids for privatisation of six airports — Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Mangaluru and Thirvananthapuram. These airports are currently under the control of the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
