Statsguru: What explains cracks in infrastructure at India's major airports

For the country's major airports, repair & maintenance expenditures declined year-on-year in proportion to their aeronautical revenues in FY24

An external tensile fabric at the arrival forecourt of the Delhi airport’s Terminal 1 collapsed recently because of water accumulation, said Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL). While no fatalities were reported, the incident serves as a grim reminder of last year’s fatal accident at the same terminal. Such structural failures are not rare anymore. In 2024 alone, media reports recorded at least five incidents of structure collapses and four cases of rainwater leakage at airports. This has been the case despite the share of aeronautical revenues in total revenues increasing for most of the country’s airports in FY24 – even if