How can India establish a viable airport nework for a billion trips?

As India gets down to building a massive airport network, the interests of all stakeholders have to be balanced while keeping costs low, service standards high and ensuring smooth transitions

In the next few years, India will massively build out its airport network so that we can accommodate a billion trips. How should such airports be financed and regulated? Which regulatory regime should be established for different types of airports in our airport network? What role should state agencies play? These are some of the questions that will have to be resolved as we embark on this massive infrastructure build-out. Moreover, the interests of all stakeholders will have to be balanced while keeping costs low, service standards high and ensuring smooth transitions.

Balancing stakeholder interests

Various experts have estimated that