Six companies win bids to build flying training schools at AAI airports

AAI had bid airports at Belagavi, Jalgaon, Kalaburagi, Khajuraho, Lilabari as part of new policy to buttress its revenue

Six companies, including little-known entrepreneurs and a firm of the GMR group, have won bids to build flying schools at five Airport Authority of India (AAI) airports — Belagavi, Jalgaon, Kalaburagi, Khajuraho and Lilabari.
 
Fourteen bids were submitted for nine flying training schools that the central government intends to set up at these airports.
 
Sources said Samvardhane Technologies, SkyNex Aero, Asia Pacific Flight Academy (of the GMR group), JetServe Aviation group, Red Bird Flight Training Academy & Chimes Aviation declared winners in the bidding process.
 
“We have been successful to bid out all nine slots at these