(a) whether the Government has assessed the operational capacity of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) during the last three years and the current year;
(b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
(c) whether AAI has not been able to exploit the non-aeronautical revenue potential in the past few years; and
(d) if so, the details thereof along with the reasons therefor?
Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION (Dr. Mahesh Sharma)
(a) & (b): The performance of Airports Authority of India (AAI) is assessed by the Government every year based on MoU parameters entered into by AAI with GoI. This is monitored by Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) for all Public Sector Undertakings including AAI.
(c) & (d): Efforts have been made by AAI to exploit various avenues for increasing the non-aeronautical revenue over the past few years. As a part of initiative, area utilized for non-aeronautical services has been increased by more than 10% per year for most of the airports for example: at Chennai Airport, the area under non-aeronautical services has been increased from 23119 Sqm. In 2010-11 to 42996 Sqm. In 2013-14. Similarly, at Kolkata Airport, the area under non-aeronautical services/revenue has been increased from 49668 sqm. to 600029 sqm. in 2013-14. In case of Trivandrum Airport, the increase in non-aeronautical areas is from 3217 in the year 2010-11 to 4029 sqm. in the year 2013-14. The non-aeronautical revenue of AAI due to the effort and utili- zation of various avenues had increased from Rs.819.10 crores in 2010-11 to Rs.1241 crores in 2013-14 making growth of about 52% over the year 3 years. AAI had already introduced various new concept to increase the non-aeronautical potential like introduction of Master Concessionaire in the field of F&B, Duty free shops and advertisement, Express Courier Terminal, Common User Cargo Terminal.