The aircrafts, which came from Pune, Jamnagar, Surat, Baroda, Chennai, Mumbai and other destinations, were ferrying business honchos for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit.
The Sardar Patel international airport in the city has been playing host to business aircrafts such as Global-5000, Cessna CJ2+, LJ60, Citation XLS, Falcon900EX, Falcon-2000, Challenger-300, super mid-sized jet C-680, Beech Craft-Hawker 850xP, Premier 1A among others for the last two days.
The aircrafts, which came from Pune, Jamnagar, Surat, Baroda, Chennai, Mumbai and other destinations, were ferrying business honchos for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit.
Some of the biggies include Ratan Tata, Anil and Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani among others.
As many as 20 aircrafts including couple of choppers descended on the city's airport beginning from Tuesday. The airport authorities recorded 40 arrivals and departures which is said to be a sort of record.
"Such arrivals and departures come under non-scheduled aircrafts category. Normally, we have only four to five such arrivals and departure everyday. But for the last two days it has gone up to 20," said an airport official.
The aircrafts and choppers belong to Bajaj Auto, Kingfisher Airlines, Taneja Aerospace & Aviation, Privilege Airways, Aerowwest GMBH/ Cambata Aviation, Jindal Steel and Power, Bharat Forge, Forum Aviation, Span Air, Finolex Industries, Metrojet, Acass Canada, Airmid Aviation Services, Dubai based Empire Aviation, Reliance Transport and Travels among others.
So does the swarm of aircrafts bring in the moolah for the Airport Authority of India?
Officials say the earning is at best meager. According to them the levy on landing and parking is as cheap as parking a four wheeler in the airport's parking lot.
It is to be noted that aircraft landing and parking charges at present have many conditions. And it varies from aircraft to aircraft depending on it weight and flying distance among others.
"The charges are meager for non-commercial flight movements compared to commercial or regular flight movements. We have also been instructed that smaller or non-scheduled flight movements be encouraged as it is mostly done for business purposes," said a senior airport official.
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