With the Thiruvananthapuram International airport set to be leased out to the Adani group, former CEO of Technopark G Vijayaraghavan has commented on it saying that this is a fine decision and that the private company will be able to attract more flights to Thiruvananthapuram.
In a video message, he said that Thiruvananthapuram has had the highest user fees so far. He pointed out that this would ultimately benefit the passengers as the private company would try to bring in more planes to the airport and that the state government did not seem to have the capacity to do this well.
He added saying, “This prevented planes from being attracted here. It also adversely affected the progress of the airport. Private operators need more aircraft if they want to make a profit.” He also went on to say that the airport was fully controlled by the government and it is only going to be leased out to the Adani group for 50 years and called it a move in the direction of development for South Kerala.
Meanwhile, disapproving of the move, the state’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written a letter to the Centre saying that it had ignored repeated requests from Kerala for entrusting the airport to a special purpose vehicle, with the state as a major stakeholder.