As many as 107 of the 136 airports operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) made losses in FY21, losing a total of \u20b92,948.97 crore as passengers stopped flying amid the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
The losses were more than double those in the previous year, when 91 of these airports reported total losses \u20b91,368.82 crore, according to data submitted by V.K. Singh, minister of state for civil aviation in the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n
In comparison, during FY19, 101 of the AAI-operated airports made losses totalling \u20b91,668.69 crore.<\/p>\n
Of the 136 airports operated by state-run AAI, 18 were not operational during FY19, while 19 weren\u2019t operational during FY20 and FY21.<\/p>\n
Of these airports, most are fully owned by AAI, while the airport operator owns a stake in a small number of airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Hyderabad and Kannur through a joint venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As many as 107 of the 136 airports operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) made losses in FY21, losing a total of \u20b92,948.97 crore as passengers stopped flying amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The losses were more than double those in the previous year, when 91 of these airports reported total losses \u20b91,368.82 crore, according to data submitted by V.K. Singh, minister of state for civil aviation in the Lok Sabha. In comparison, during FY19, 101 of the AAI-operated airports made losses totalling \u20b91,668.69 crore. Of the 136 airports operated by state-run AAI, 18 were not operational during FY19, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}