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New Delhi: In its 2019 election manifesto, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pledged to double the number of functional airports in the country to over 200 by 2024..
The contribution of the top 10 airports of the country by passenger traffic Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Cochin, Ahmedabad, Pune and Goa has decreased to 71 percent in April 2023-January 2024 from 78 percent in April 2014-January 2015. t ..
For a few years now, as the passenger traffic has grown exponentially, major airports have become overcrowded and congested, leading to increased passenger processing times as well as runway congestion, Shantanu Gangakhedkar, senior consultant, Aerospace & Defense and Frost & Sullivan, told ThePrint...
The contribution of the top five airports Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to the countrys passenger traffic at airports, now stands at 54 percent, down from 62 percent in the 10 months of April 2014-January 2015..
On aggregate, the airports beyond the 10 largest now account for nearly 30 percent of all passenger traffic up from about 22 percent in April 2014-January 2015 and 27 percent in April 2019-January 2020...
