Chennai Airport Privatization - Airliners-India

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Chennai Airport Privatization

the_380 · Member

Thats good to hear another airport on the privatisation radar

rgds

the_380

Aseem · Member

let all left leaning parties change colours at their home turf. Al least we will have better airports.

tayara mechanici · Member

TN is presently attracting the largest FDI in a large spectrum of export oriented industries (Auto ancillaries, Telecom & IT hardware, Textile etc) in India. Discounting Orissa which is attracting FDI in metals industry only. Based on this fact they need a state of the art airport to route the export items, not only at chennai but also at Coimbatore and Trichy. It would be a wrong signal to the business community had they backed AAI. DMK's latest tryst with neyvile lignite is an example of the union muscle and doesn't want any other govt corp union to grow strong as to challenge the state govt.

With the scope to add a parallel runway at Meenambakkam, MAA could be the India's largest airport overtaking BOM & DEL. Additionally it doesn't have the disabling (occupying underutilised terminals, crowding parking bays) legacy of AI unlike these 2. I won't be surprised to see Kingfisher or Indigo making MAA their hub following this development.

AKLDELNonstop · Member

MAA could be the India's largest airport overtaking BOM & DEL

Thats being really optimistic. I dont see that happening in the near future though.

the_380 · Member

Well i dont see that happening either

tayara mechanici · Member

AKLDELNonstop wrote:

MAA could be the India's largest airport overtaking BOM & DEL

Thats being really optimistic. I dont see that happening in the near future though.

Economics & Location, Location my friend, MAA is closest to SE-Asia among all the metros in India. Mumbai airport, to great extent grew 'cause of the gulf factor and Gujus. Allow mutiple P2P from India to gulf, AMD-LHR/BHX/JFK and Mumbai losses its bottom.

The same cannot be said for SE. MAA-SIN/BKK/KUL is well under 3hrs, the max range for a full load on a A320 or B737. If you follow longitude 80 N which disects MAA, vola, you have NYC, BOS & ORD within 9500mi, add to these 2 factors the Tamil diaspora in these 2 regions (SE-A & E.Coast) you get the 40% minimum pax rule for a hub airport, rest is connecting from to and fro SE/E.COAST. There is no airline based in MAA presently, DN has it as its second base after BLR, given these facts a marginally liberal aviation regime i.e. 2-3yr in svc for Intl ops rule, will see atleast 2 airline moving base to MAA if the admin promises the 2nd runway with good surface transport. A SWOT of MAA on these points will prove my point.

I know where u guys are coming from, leave the prejudice aside. The annas might not be hip but are bloody clued up................

-- Edited by tayara mechanici at 04:10, 2006-08-22

texdravid · Recruit

Tayara,

Thanks for the optimistic MAA plans, but I just don't see it happening, as much as I want it to.

If you know me from the other A.net boards, sometimes I seem like the only one defending MAA and arguing that MAA deserves more European flights and international flights in general.

However, the population of MAA is far less than BOM or DEL, and the Tamils aren't as big a diaspora as Punjabis or Gujarartis. Many of those groups emigrate in family clans of 15 people, including their grandmothers! Tamils emigrate when ONE engineer finds a job in Dallas, but his amma and appa stay behind in Madurai!

Add that to the usual incompetent Tamil Nadu AIADMK V. DMK politics, and you have stagnation at best, contraction of services at worst.

Feel free to disagree.

tayara mechanici · Member

texdravid wrote:

Feel free to disagree.

Thanks for allowing me to disagree.

The punjus and gujjus migrate as a whole village 'cause of their occupation i.e Shopkeeper, Motelier, Cabby etc. They need the manpower for a 24/7 family business that none of the westerners care to do. On the contrary the madrasi (southner)techie has a better job & income. You will accept that a avg techie is a more frequent traveller to india than the cabby or shopkeeper. There is a rise in the punju-gujju traveller because of the first generation migrants retiring, pension $$ gets them a better high in INDIA. Additionally this very punju-gujju migrant would have travelled thru BOM/DEL, now with ATQ and AMD snipping at their heels this is the loss of BOM/DEL. Recent announcement by aeroflot to fly ATQ and soon AMD will see a further erosion of this pax from BOM/DEL. The population growth of the madrasi pro is far greater than the punju-gujju traditional migrant because of the type of skills shortage here in the west. In the U.K. the traditional jobs that the punju-gujju went for is being seeked by the east-EU arrivals. Whereas the need for english speaking knowledge based pro are still being met mainly from India, as per the workpermit dept.

Definately MAA needs a home based airline if it has to ever achieve the numero uno status as mentioned before. It is without doubt the retired Tamil airline professionals from SQ will be planning a foray into MAA. Among the southern states the new Hyd airport has the threat from Begumpet, and Devenhalli from Hosur. MAA doesn't have this threat far and wide. With a home based airline and parallel runways it will definately see a soaring of numbers. BOM is chocking, and the airport at dronagiri will be sharing its load say in 5yrs time earliest. DEL post commonwealth will be a spent place,considering the slow erosion of baburaj.

himmat01 · Member

An Editorial in the Indian Express.

Chennai Airport privatization

SLCNate · Recruit

tayara mechanici wrote:

AKLDELNonstop wrote:

MAA could be the India's largest airport overtaking BOM & DEL

Thats being really optimistic. I dont see that happening in the near future though.

Economics & Location, Location my friend, MAA is closest to SE-Asia among all the metros in India. Mumbai airport, to great extent grew 'cause of the gulf factor and Gujus. Allow mutiple P2P from India to gulf, AMD-LHR/BHX/JFK and Mumbai losses its bottom.

The same cannot be said for SE. MAA-SIN/BKK/KUL is well under 3hrs, the max range for a full load on a A320 or B737. If you follow longitude 80 N which disects MAA, vola, you have NYC, BOS & ORD within 9500mi, add to these 2 factors the Tamil diaspora in these 2 regions (SE-A & E.Coast) you get the 40% minimum pax rule for a hub airport, rest is connecting from to and fro SE/E.COAST. There is no airline based in MAA presently, DN has it as its second base after BLR, given these facts a marginally liberal aviation regime i.e. 2-3yr in svc for Intl ops rule, will see atleast 2 airline moving base to MAA if the admin promises the 2nd runway with good surface transport. A SWOT of MAA on these points will prove my point.

I know where u guys are coming from, leave the prejudice aside. The annas might not be hip but are bloody clued up................

-- Edited by tayara mechanici at 04:10, 2006-08-22

I wish the same with MAA becoming a major hub. One suggestion though. You forgot IC also based in MAA.

SLCNate · Recruit

Looks like all the other non-metro airport have to wait before MAA and CCU's fate is decided.

"Plan panel asks govt to go slow on revamp of small airports

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1996462.cms

NEW DELHI: Modernisation of non-metro airports with private participation may get delayed with the government likely to roll out this project only after plans for Kolkata and Chennai airports are finalised. According to government sources, the Planning Commission has suggested the civil aviation ministry to stagger involvement of private parties in airport development, and accordingly delay city side development of non-metro airports.

This move is expected to pacify the airport staff who oppose private participation. Airport Authority of India (AAI) employees have been opposing the participation of private parties in Delhi and Mumbai airports. The aviation ministry is also facing stiff resistance from the West Bengal government and the staff at Kolkata and Chennai airports.

The Planning Commission feels once progress is made with the Kolkata and Chennai airports, it will be easier to begin the modernisation of non-metro airports. This development comes even as the civil aviation ministry is planning to invite expressions of interest from private parties by October-end this year for modernising 35 non-metro airports. The modernisation of the 35 non-metro airports is estimated to cost around Rs 2,200 crore.

Meanwhile, the government is going ahead with the modernisation of those non-metro airports where no city-side development is required. The process of modernisation at six non-metro airports — Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Vizag, Udaipur, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram — has been started. The work at these airports would be finished in next four years. Work on eight other airports, where no private parties shall be involved, is also likely to begin soon.

For modernisation of remaining 21 non-metro airports, private participation will be invited for non-aeronautical and commercial operations of these airports, including construction of airport hotels and restaurants. Though PM’s Committee on Infrastructure had given green light to the proposed modernisation of Chennai and Kolkata airports in August last year, progress has been slow. The civil aviation ministry now claims that a final decision on the modernisation of Chennai and Kolkata airports will be taken in a month. As a first step, the government has floated bids to appoint global advisors."

COUGAR · Member

Was in chennai a fortnight back on business and found the domestic airport was in excellent condition. Perhaps it could be better but the exsisting terminal is quite nice IMO with quick baggage retrieval, convenient and decent pre-paid taxi operators inside the terminal.

The foodcourt at the departure lunge was great!!

Things can only get better with a private partner!!!

Nimish · Member

Yes - MAA is definitely one of the better domestic airports in the country. The intl part is a bit iffy due to teh long queues at Immigration control when leaving India - I've had to wait for an hour to get past immigrations

. That being said, the ease of changing terminals makes it my preferrred intl airport (after BLR of course)!.