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Bid opening date for Jaipur airport extended again

AAI will remain the airport operator for these airports and will continue to perform its functions, informed officials in ministry of civil aviation.

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The attempts of Airport Authority of India (AAI) to give selected areas of Jaipur international airport to a strategic partner for operation and maintenance (O&M) has hit turbulence once again.

The Authority, has once again changed the date of opening of technical bid and now, the date has been fixed as April 12. The last date for bid submission is April 10. The  date earlier was February 16 and with this, it is the 11th time that the date has been changed. The decision was taken after a meeting of the airport authority officials was held with the private players on January 15 this year. 

The initial date for opening of this technical bid was March 8 in 2017. Since then the date has been changed many times. Also, earlier the letter of award was to be given to the selected company in July last year, however as of now no new date has been given for the same.

Notably, the airport authority wishes to give passenger terminal, car parking , apron and associated utilities of the airport on Operation and maintenance in coming days . The strategic partner will be selected through a bidding process and once selected, AAI will enter into an O&M contract with the bidder.

However, AAI will remain the airport operator for these airports and will continue to perform its functions, informed officials in ministry of civil aviation.

The current process for this objective was started in 2016 when Request for Proposals (RFP) were invited in December, 2016. Since then, the process has been slow due to various reasons. Sources informed that this time few changes have also been made in RFP and draft O&M agreements. Notably, in 2015, the operations department of the AAI had invited bids from private operators. Few companies had also met the officials at Jaipur airport in this regard.

AI flight for bikaner

Tourists coming to Bikaner will have more options to fly now. Come March 25, Air India is starting a flight between Jaipur and Bikaner. The flight will be operated under the UDAN scheme of the union government. It  will depart from Bikaner at 11:45 am and will reach Jaipur at 12:45 pm.

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