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The Indian aviation minister emphasizes the ambitious efforts aimed at building a strong aviation infrastructure to meet the demands of a rapidly-growing economy.
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Despite India’s tremendous growth in aviation, the country remains a highly under-penetrated market, said Indian aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
“Even if, as per projections, the number of domestic passengers reaches 635 million by fiscal year 2030, India will still be one of the least penetrated of the 20 largest market,” he said.
Scindia was speaking at the inauguration of the Wings India 2024 in Hyderabad last week.
Talking about the jump in domestic passengers, Scindia said the number rose from 60 million in 2014 to 143 million in 2020 and is expected to have crossed 150 million in 2023.
“We are clocking more than 450,000 passengers a day on a regular basis with a high of 467,000 domestic passengers recently,” he said.
Scindia said the government has been working to create capacities, remove bottlenecks and simplify processes and procedures to ensure that in 2047, India has an aviation system that supports a $20 trillion economy.
“We have doubled number of airports in the country in the last 9 years, from 74 in 2014 to 149 now,” he said, highlighting the ongoing work on capacity enhancement at airports in metro cities, where the overall capacity is slated to rise from 221 million passenger per year currently to over 468 million passengers per year in the next decade.
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