Asia-Pacific Airports - Issue 3, 2020

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ASIA-PACIFIC AIRPORTS MAGAZINE

DESIGN & BUILD

Delhi Noida International Airport Construction of a second Delhi airport is expected to commence in the second half of 2021 if financing is secured.

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t may still be a few years away from becoming reality, but a second Delhi airport is now well and truly on the radar following confirmation that Zurich Airport will build and operate the new gateway and the appointment of its new management team. Delhi Noida International Airport (DNIA) will be led by CEO, Christoph Schnellmann, while Kiran Jain, a popular and well-known face in the airport and aviation industry, will serve as its chief operating officer. The Swiss airport’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Zurich Airport International AG (ZAIA), submitted the highest bid for the 40-year concession to develop and manage APA Issue 3, 2020

Delhi Noida International Airport, which will be located in Jewar, in Uttar Pradesh, around 72 kilometres from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Expected to cost around €600 million, the greenfield airport is slated to open in 2024 and and will initially be equipped to handle 12 million passengers per annum. However, an ambitious development plan includes proposals to raise its capacity to 30mppa in Phase II and 70mppa by the end of the concession in 2061. DNIA chairman and managing director, Daniel Bircher, reveals that Zurich Airport has received the letter of award (LoA) of the contract following the gaining of all the


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