Question

What is the role of the Airport Authority of India?

Answer 1

Hint: To answer this question, you must recall the Airports Authority of India also known as AAI. The Airports Authority of India is a statutory body founded in April 1955 that works under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India.

Complete answer:Airports Authority of India (AAI) was constituted by the Airports Authority of India Ac, 1994 and came into being on 1st April 1995 as a result of the merging of the International Airports Authority of India and National Airports Authority. This merging brought into action a single organization that is entrusted with the responsibility of creating, maintaining, upgrading, and managing civil aviation and its infrastructure both on the ground and in the air space of the country.
The Airports Authority of India manages a total of 137 airports all over the nation of which 24 are International airports (3 Civil Enclaves), 10 are Custom Airports (4 Civil Enclaves) and 103 are Domestic airports (23 Civil Enclaves). The AAI offers air navigation services across over \[2.8\] million square nautical miles of air space.

Note: During the year 2019, the Airport Authority of India handled an aircraft movement of \[1314.23\] Thousand [\[156.0\] International and \[1158.23\] Domestic]. \[159.59\] Million [\[22.26\] in International and 137.33 in Domestic] and the cargo handled was around \[909.32\] thousand MT [International \[452.46\] & Domestic \[456.85\]]. Furthermore, all the Indian airports taken together handled an aircraft movement of \[2587.05\] Thousand [International \[431.85\] and Domestic \[2155.20\]]. The number of passengers handled in these aircrafts was over \[341.05\] Million [International \[66.54\] and Domestic \[274.51\] ] and the cargo handled \[3328.63\] thousand MT [International \[2003.12\] and Domestic \[1325.51\] ].