Airports in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Delhi gear up for capacity expansion

Expediting Navi Mumbai Airport appears to be the only option for Mumbai to ratchet up capacity

Faster growth in the aviation sector has put yet another major international airport in the country on the expansion mode with the GMR Group-led Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) initiating plans to expand its capacity starting this year.

Having started operations in March 2008, the green-field Rajiv Gandhi International Airport surpassed the 14 million passenger mark in 2016, while it was built to handle only 12 million passengers in Phase-1.

This comes close on the heels of the capacity expansion already underway at Bengaluru's green-field Kempegowda International Airport, which had started commercial operations 2 months after the inauguration of Hyderabad