Description of Airports Authority of India (AAI)

 Airport Authority of India (AAI) was set up by an Act of Parliament and showed up on first April 1995 by consolidating ongoing National Airports Authority and International Airports Authority of India.

The solidification brought into reality a singular Organization supplied with the commitment of making, redesiging, staying aware of, and administering normal flying structure both on the ground and air space in the country.

AAI manages an amount of 137 air terminals which consolidate 24 International air terminals (3 Civil Enclaves), 10 Custom Air terminals (4 Civil Enclaves) and 103 Domestic air terminals (23 Civil Enclaves). AAI gives air course organizations over 2.8 million square nautical miles of air space. During the year 2019-20, AAI managed plane advancement of 1314.23 Thousand [International 156.0 and Domestic 1158.23], Passengers dealt with 159.59 Million [International 22.26 and Domestic 137.33] and the cargo managed 909.32 thousand MT [International 452.46 and Domestic 456.85]. Further, all Indian air terminals taken together have dealt with plane advancement of 2587.05 Thousand [International 431.85 and Domestic 2155.20], Passengers dealt with 341.05 Million [Overall 66.54& Domestic 274.51] and the cargo managed 3328.63 thousand MT [International 2003.12 & Local 1325.51].

1. Passenger Facilities

The fundamental elements of AAI between alia incorporate development, alteration and the executives of traveler terminals, advancement and the executives of freight terminals, improvement and support of cover foundation including runways, equal runways, cover and so forth, Provision of Communication, Route and Surveillance which incorporates arrangement of DVOR/DME, ILS, ATC radars, visual helps and so forth, arrangement of air traffic administrations, arrangement of traveler offices and related conveniences at its terminals along these lines guaranteeing free from any and all harm activities of airplane, traveler and freight in the country.

2. Air Navigation Services

In line with worldwide way to deal with modernization of Air Navigation foundation for consistent

route across state and territorial limits, AAI has been proceeding with its arrangements for

progress to satellite based Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management.

Various co-activity arrangements and memoranda of co-activity have been endorsed with US

Government Aviation Administration, US Trade and Development Agency, European Union, Air Services

Australia and the French Government Co-employable Projects and Studies started to acquire from their

experience. Through these exercises an ever increasing number of leaders of AAI are being presented to the most recent innovation, present day rehearses and methodology being embraced to work on the general presentation of Air terminals and Air Navigation Services.

Enlistment of most recent best in class hardware, both as substitution and old types of gear and furthermore as new offices to further develop principles of wellbeing of air terminals in the air is a persistent interaction. Appropriations of better than ever methodology go connected at the hip with enlistment of new hardware. A portion of the significant drives toward this path are presentation of Reduced Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM) in India air space to expand airspace limit and decrease blockage in the air; execution of GPS What's more Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) mutually with ISRO which when put to activity would be one of the four such frameworks on the planet.

3. Security

The proceeding with security climate has brought into the center the requirement for reinforcing the security of indispensable establishments. There was along these lines a critical need to patch up the security at air terminals not exclusively to frustrate any misfortune yet additionally to reestablish certainty of the voyaging public in the security of air travel as an entire, which was shaken later 9/11 misfortune. With this in view, various advances were taken counting organization of CISF for air terminal security, CCTV reconnaissance framework at delicate air terminals, most recent and best in class X-beam things investigation frameworks, chief security, and reconnaissance frameworks. Brilliant Cards for access control to indispensable establishments at air terminals are additionally being considered to supplement the endeavors of the safety work force at delicate air terminals

4. Aerodrome Facilities

In Airports Authority of India, the basic approach to planning of airport facilities has been adopted to

create capacity ahead of demand in our efforts. Towards implementation of this strategy, a number of

projects for extension and strengthening of runway, taxi track and aprons at different airports has

been taken up. Extension of runway to 7500 ft. has been taken up to support operation for Airbus-

320/Boeing 737-800 category of aircrafts at all airports.