NEW DELHI: Despite the travel boom, the airports at Jaipur, Srinagar, Khajuraho, Agra, Port Blair, Jaisalmer, Varanasi and Agatti are in the red.
Varanasi airport located at the city of Taj, Agra, lost Rs 4.6 crore during the year. Jaipur, the other point linking the tourist triangle anchored by Delhi, fared far worse with losses of Rs 12.7 crore. The airports at Kullu, Dehradun and Kangra are also in the red.
Apart from tourist destinations, a number of airports located at state capitals are also in red. The Patna airport lost nearly Rs 11.9 crore in 04-05, while the Bhopal airport lost Rs 8.8 crore. In any case, 116 of the 126 airports managed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) make losses.
The Guwahati airport, the gateway to the North-East, is among the list of non-profitable airports with losses of Rs 51 crore, followed by Bhubaneshwar with Rs 14.7 crore, Lucknow (Rs 10.8 crore), Thiruvananthapuram (Rs 4.3 crore), Chandigarh (Rs 2.7 crore) Shimla (Rs 2.6 crore) and Ahmedabad (Rs 1.9 crore).
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