Airports Authority of India

The Airports Authority of India or AAI is a statutory body (created through the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994) working under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure in India. It provides Communication Navigation Surveillance / Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) services over Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. It also manages a total of 126[1] Airports, including 11[1] International Airports, 11 Customs Airports, 89 Domestic Airports and 26 Civil enclaves at Military Airfields. AAI also has ground installations at all airports and 25 other locations to ensure safety of aircraft operations. AAI covers all major air-routes over Indian landmass via 29 Radar installations at 11 locations along with 700 VOR/DVOR installations co-located with Distance Measuring Equipment (DME). 52 runways are provided with Instrument landing system (ILS) installations with Night Landing Facilities at most of these airports and Automatic Message Switching System at 15 Airports.

Airports Authority of India
Statutory Authority
Industry Aviation sector
PredecessorCivil Aviation Department, Government of India
Founded1 April 1995
HeadquartersRajiv Gandhi Bhawan,
Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi-110003
Key people
Arvind Singh

(Chairman),

B.S. Bhullar, DGCA (Ex-Officio)
ProductsAirport management and Air Navigation Services (ANS)
Number of employees
17,535 (As on 31.03.2018)
ParentDirectorate General of Civil Aviation
Websitewww.aai.aero/en
Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan

AAI's implementation of Automatic Dependence Surveillance System (ADSS), at Kolkata and Chennai Air Traffic Control Centres, made India the first country to use this technology in the South East Asian region thus enabling Air Traffic Control over oceanic areas using satellite mode of communication. Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures have already been implemented at Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad Airports. AAI is implementing the GAGAN project in technological collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The navigation signals thus received from the GPS will be augmented to achieve the navigational requirement of aircraft. The first phase of the technology demonstration system was completed in February 2008.

AAI has five training establishments, including three ATS training organizations (ATSTO) viz. 1) The Civil Aviation Training College (CATC) at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, 2) Hyderabad Training Centre at Hyderabad (HTC) and 3) National Institute of Aviation Training and Management (NIATAM) at Gondia, Maharashtra. The other training centres are 4) Indian Aviation Academy[2] (National Institute of Aviation Management and Research (NIAMAR) at Delhi (a joint venture of Airports Authority of India, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India) and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, Govt of India) and 5) Fire Training Centres (FTC) at Delhi & Kolkata.

An Aerodrome Visual Simulator (AVS) has been provided at CATC and non-radar procedural ATC simulator equipment is being supplied to CATC Allahabad and Hyderabad Airport. AAI has a dedicated Flight Inspection Unit (FIU) with a fleet of three aircraft fitted with flight inspection system to inspect Instrument Landing Systems up to Cat-III, VORs, DMEs, NDBs, VGSI (PAPI, VASI) and RADAR (ASR/MSSR). In addition to in-house flight calibration of its navigational aids, AAI undertakes flight calibration of navigational aids for the Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and other private airfields in the country.

History

The Government of India constituted the International Airports Authority of India (IAAI) in 1972 to manage the nation's international airports while the National Airports Authority (NAA) was constituted in 1986 to look after domestic airports.[3][4] The organisations were merged in April 1995 by an Act of Parliament, namely, the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 and has been constituted as a Statutory Body and was named as Airports Authority of India (AAI).[5] This new organisation was to be responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure both on the ground and air space in the country.

References
  1. "Airports Authority of India". Aai.aero. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  2. Executive Director, Training IAA (14 May 2019). "Indian Aviation Academy". Official website of Indian Aviation Academy.
  3. "AAI Program to Upgrade Airport Infrastructure Facilities Forging Ahead with Full Speed; Strategic Planning Puts India on Global Aviation Map" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. "PIB English Features". Aai.aero. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  5. "Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India" (PDF). Aera.gov.
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