Adani Airports is making a giant wager on Uttar Pradesh’s aviation hub with a deliberate funding of ₹10,000 crore for the growth of Lucknow’s Chaudhary Charan Singh Worldwide Airport (CCSIA) in a phased method, an Adani Airports official informed Enterprise Immediately. The funding will give attention to capability growth, modernisation, expertise adoption, and cargo infrastructure over the approaching years.
The airport, which has already utilised ₹2,401 crore in capital expenditure for a brand new terminal and landside street infrastructure, at present operates at a passenger dealing with capability of 8 million passengers yearly. By 2026-27, this capability will rise to 14 million passengers, because the airport completes Terminal 3, Section 2, with an extra funding of ₹900 crore.
“The intent is to construct on commonality via swing operations in order that the identical facility can be utilized for managing worldwide and home site visitors relying upon site visitors peaks. This fusion of significant modernisation, expertise, and encouragement to artwork and tradition will create a seamless passenger expertise,” the official stated.
At current, the airport has seven aerobridges totally operational and may deal with Kind D plane, with parking capability for 15 plane at a time. The community has additionally been increasing steadily, with Lucknow now linked to 42 continuous locations — 31 home and 11 worldwide routes. Worldwide passengers account for practically 19% of whole site visitors, whereas Lucknow contributes round 4% to Uttar Pradesh’s GDP.
Trying forward, Adani Airports is eyeing an aggressive push in each passenger and cargo operations. The corporate has set a goal of making 50,000 metric tonnes of cargo capability inside the subsequent 5 years, whereas additionally including new worldwide routes to Vietnam, Singapore and different locations.
