What are the challenges and differences in greenfield and brownfield airport projects?
Navi Mumbai will be a classic case of a greenfield airport. In India, typically the first greenfield project was the Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) – and also the second one in the world. Drafting of concession agreements and creating a security structures were the challenges. But since we already have one greenfield airport executed and running, challenges to that extent will come down. Of course, there will be issues such as environment, but those will be taken care of. Land acquisition will be a challenge. Distribution of traffic between Navi Mumbai and Mumbai, infrastructure and connectivity are also major challenges. How different are the Bangalore operations from Hyderabad? The quality of traffic is superior in Bangalore because of it being the IT capital. Bangalore has about nine million passengers, while Hyderabad has around six million. In Bangalore, passengers are mostly white-collared IT employees going international, unlike in Hyderabad. So the spend per passenger i
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