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Passengers utilizing the Thiruvananthapuram planetary airdrome proceed to wage the highest magnitude of the idiosyncratic improvement fee, with the airdrome operator, Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), charging a hefty interest for some embarking and disembarking passengers. According to the statistic disposable with the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the airdrome relation has collected a grounds ₹383.26crore from the passengers successful 2025, the highest among the six precocious privatised airports successful the country.
In Thiruvananthapuram, a home rider utilizing the airdrome volition person to wage ₹770 for embarking and ₹330 for disembarking, portion the complaint is astatine ₹1,540 for an embarking planetary rider and ₹660 for a disembarking planetary passenger. Considering the idiosyncratic interest charged by different airports successful the state on with 3 different planetary airports successful Kerala, the interest levied connected the passengers successful the Thiruvananthapuram airdrome is 1 of the highest successful the country.
Lowest successful Kochi
The full idiosyncratic interest collected from passengers successful 5 different privatised airports successful the state successful 2025 —Ahmedabad (₹345.31 crore), Jaipur (₹295.62 crore), Lucknow (₹260.59 crore), Guwahati ₹208.17 crore), and Mangaluru (₹111.58 crore) — are little than that of Thiruvananthapuram. In Kerala, the lowest idiosyncratic interest is charged by the Cochin planetary airport, wherever ₹270 is charged connected a home rider and ₹570 connected an planetary passenger. The interest complaint astatine the Kannur planetary airdrome is besides 1 of the highest successful the country.
The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA), acceptable up by the Union authorities nether the AERA Act, 2008 determines aeronautical charges successful each airports, including idiosyncratic fee, considering the factors specified arsenic instrumentality connected concern for aeronautical assets, operating expenditure, depreciation, taxation etc. The tariff for aeronautical services is determined by AERA multi-year tariff connection submitted by the airdrome operators, which comes into effect aft getting notified done the Aeronautical Information Circular issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The AERA had granted support to revise the idiosyncratic interest charged connected passengers astatine the Thiruvananthapuram airport, arsenic portion of the aerial summons fare, by astir 50% connected June 21, 2024 for a play of 5 years from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2027. It was the archetypal revision for the airdrome since its privatisation. The AAHL controls a full of 8 airports successful the country.
