Adani Group introduces charges for private jets
₹ 1,000 for every passenger on private aircraft operators for a week, one of the people said on condition of anonymity. The Adani Group operates seven airports in the country, including Mumbai, and the new charge has been introduced at six of its airports—Guwahati, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram and Ahmedabad. The company handled around 7.1 million passengers during September, or nearly 23.7% of air passengers in India.
“We are looking to take up the matter with the stakeholders as this hurts the business of small airlines and charter operators amid an inflationary environment already in place," a business aircraft operator said on condition of anonymity. This will not be the first time an airport managed by the Adani group would increase charges for private jets. In 2021, its Lucknow airport had increased charges for private jets by ten times but had to roll it back later.
The conglomerate had earlier hiked ground handling charges at Ahmedabad, leading to complaints from airlines to the tariff regulator, the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA). “SpiceJet had complained to AERA about the steep increase, almost to the tune of 10x, in the ground handling charges at Ahmedabad airport. Following this complaint, the tariff regulator intervened, and a meeting was called, whereby Adani Group gave in writing that they would withdraw the increase in ground handling charges.
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