Letter to BS: aviation model of development has to be a PPP model

The government must not give in to the temptation of awarding contracts to the so called 'L-1' bidders

Apropos your excellent all-encompassing editorial “AAI’s flight plans” (May 16); I think the initiative — ably supported by our savvy minister Jayant Sinha — is definitely a step in the right direction. With passenger footfalls touching an awesome 26 per cent at some of these ‘smaller’ airports, we just can't afford to not upgrade them. In fact, some of these may be ‘smaller’ only in comparison with the ‘Big Four’ — Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru — but are otherwise very big. Then again, these things work like the proverbial chicken and egg story; we make Chennai, Kolkata etc world