New Delhi: Public-private partnership (PPP) projects can take a leaf out of the Delhi airport.
The airport run by Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) — a consortium between GMR Group (64 per cent), the government’s Airports Authority of India (AAI, 26 per cent) and Germany’s Fraport AG (10 per cent) — completed 10 years this May, as a successful PPP.
A comparison of certain metrics since 2006, when it was privatised, shows DIAL has changed the airport’s face. In FY16, there were 48.4 million passengers, compared to 16.2 mn in FY07.
Average daily aircraft movement had risen to 943, from 414. From a dismal Airport Service Quality (ASQ) ranking of 101 in 2006, it topped the list in 2016.
I P Rao, chief executive officer, says: “As an airport developer, we faced many challenges in this journey. The immediate challenge was to mobilise 30,000 individuals from 15 countries. Materials were sourced from 20 countries, fabrication yards were set up at site. Direct involvement in procurement and logistics was required.”
In 2000, when the International Air Transport Association (IATA) conducted a survey of the biggest airports in the world, those at Mumbai and Delhi were ranked among the three least favourable ones in the Asia-Pacific region on all 19 service elements. In 2003, the then government decided to invite private capital for both.
To Read the News in Full 06/06/16 Arindam Majumder/Business Standard
The airport run by Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) — a consortium between GMR Group (64 per cent), the government’s Airports Authority of India (AAI, 26 per cent) and Germany’s Fraport AG (10 per cent) — completed 10 years this May, as a successful PPP.
A comparison of certain metrics since 2006, when it was privatised, shows DIAL has changed the airport’s face. In FY16, there were 48.4 million passengers, compared to 16.2 mn in FY07.
Average daily aircraft movement had risen to 943, from 414. From a dismal Airport Service Quality (ASQ) ranking of 101 in 2006, it topped the list in 2016.
I P Rao, chief executive officer, says: “As an airport developer, we faced many challenges in this journey. The immediate challenge was to mobilise 30,000 individuals from 15 countries. Materials were sourced from 20 countries, fabrication yards were set up at site. Direct involvement in procurement and logistics was required.”
In 2000, when the International Air Transport Association (IATA) conducted a survey of the biggest airports in the world, those at Mumbai and Delhi were ranked among the three least favourable ones in the Asia-Pacific region on all 19 service elements. In 2003, the then government decided to invite private capital for both.
To Read the News in Full 06/06/16 Arindam Majumder/Business Standard
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