Delhi airport awards contracts for hotel development

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - NIIT, a leading IT training company in India, has bagged five Chinese awards including the one for the Most Influential IT Training Brand in China for its efforts to create well-trained world-class professionals in that country. According to the IT training major, the awards were conferred by the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS), which is under China's ministry of education.

August 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the imposition of airport development fee (ADF) on passengers by the airport service providers. The Ministry of Civil Aviation directed the all airlines flying out of Delhi to collect a development fee from the passengers while issuing tickets from March this year.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new aviation regulator, Airport Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), will settle all contentious issues in the aviation sector, including the airport development fee issue, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said here Thursday. Replying to questions in parliament, Patel said: "AERA has been constituted by an act of parliament and has started functioning.

June 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three companies that run popular food and beverage outlets like Copper Chimney, Costa Coffee and Pizza Hut have been awarded contracts to set up shop at the upcoming Terminal 3 at the international airport here. "Following a tender process, the successful bidders with Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) will develop, operate, maintain and manage food and beverages outlets at Terminal 3, said GMR, which heads the consortium that is upgrading the airport.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - For those suffering from aviophobia, the fear of flying, divine help will be at hand soon with a grand temple with south Indian architecture coming up just outside the airport here. The choice of deity, too, for this unique initiative by an airport developer is apt - the temple is dedicated to the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, also called Pavanaputra, the son of the wind god.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mumbai-based Litolier Group, which opened a boutique hotel 'Ramada Plaza' here Friday, said it would enhance its presence in the hospitality sector by building two more five-star properties in next few years. The group will develop two hotels in Mumbai and Goa under a joint venture with a foreign hospitality major.

March 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The international airports at Chennai, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa and Ahmedabad will soon get the government's nod to levy development fee on passengers to raise funds for their expansion, an Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said Thursday. 'We are doing this to bridge the capital funding gap.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday asked all airlines flying out of Delhi to collect development fee from the passengers while issuing air tickets, and not when they are checking in at the airport. 'The development fee should then be remitted to DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd, the developer of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport) in line with the system procedure,' a statement issued by the civil aviation ministry said.

February 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Friday gave its nod for a development fee on air passengers travelling out of Mumbai airport, who will have to pay Rs.100 per trip for domestic flights and Rs.600 for flights abroad. The approval comes after a similar decision for passengers flying out of Delhi.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Slumdog Millionaire', which has won as many as eight awards at the Oscars, was Monday granted entertainment tax exemption in Delhi, with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit saying it had 'created history in the field of Indian cinema'. Dikshit expressed her pleasure over 'Slumdog Millionaire' - a film by British director Danny Boyle with India as its backdrop and at its heart - sweeping the 81st Academy Awards.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government is likely to allow Mumbai's airport developer to charge an additional fee from passengers to help it bridge its development fund deficit, a senior official said Wednesday. It had recently allowed the airport developer in the national capital to charge a similar fee.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday approved additional fee of Rs.200 on all domestic passengers and Rs.1,300 per head on those bound overseas from the airport in the national capital as access development charges to its developer. The development fee will be paid to the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), which has the Bangalore-based infrastructure major GMR and the state-run Airports Authority of India as principal promoters.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday approved additional fee of Rs.200 on all domestic passengers and Rs.1,300 per head on those going abroad from the airport in the national capital as access development charges to its developer. The development fee will be paid to the Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), which has the Bangalore-based infrastructure major GMR and the state-run Airports Authority of India as principal promoters.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Centaur, the state-owned hotel located near the Delhi airport, will be given a Rs.416.5-million facelift even though it will be demolished after the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, official sources said. The sources said the board of the Hotel Corp of India (HCI), which runs the five-star hotel, was in the process of finalising a proposal to pump in Rs.35.15 crore (Rs.351.5 million) to add more rooms to accommodate the anticipated tourist inflow during the Delhi Games next year.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Airfares are all set to go up once again as the government is close to working out the airport development fee (ADF) charges - an additional fee for outgoing passengers - at Delhi and Mumbai airports, a government official said Tuesday. 'The ADF charges are being worked out and should be in place by early next month,' a senior official of the civil aviation ministry said.