Business Opportunities

• Investments are being made to build & renew airport infrastructure to handle the growing air traffic of over 580 million passengers by 2016-17
• Airport Authority of India has proposed spend of INR 4662 Crores to modernize 35 Non Metro airports to world-class standards.
• In order to encourage private participation in the airport infrastructure sector the government has further liberalized the foreign equity participation upto 100%
• 80 airports will be upgraded to meet all operational communication requirements of air traffic services
• Creating of a multi modal cargo hub also offers a great business opportunity
• Alliance Air proposes to develop Green fields airports for ATR-72 operation in three states of India
• 10 green field airports are also being planned
• Training facilities at Indra Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy(IGRUA) will also be upgraded. IGRUA is planning to spend US$ 5.25 million for this single project
• Government proposes to establish a premier pilot training institute at Gondia, Maharashtra & will look for entering into joint ventures
• The MRO business is also set to gain momentum considering the low cost & highly skilled labour in India coupled with cost sensitive customers & growing fleet size. Thus posing a significant investment opportunity with a potential to service a fleet of 1000 commercial & 500 general aviation aircraft.