CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION The Ministry of Civil Aviation of the Government of India (MCA) is the nodal Ministry responsible for the formulation of national policies and programmes for development and regulation of Civil Aviation and for devising and implementing schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civil air transport. Its functions also extend to overseeing airport facilities, air traffic services and carriage of passengers and goods by air. The Ministry also administers implementation of the 1934 Aircraft Act and is administratively responsible for the Commission of Railways Safety. 1.2 STRUCTURE OF MCA Ministry of Civil Aviation Director Bureau of Indira General Airports Private Gandhi Civil Airline Gandhi of Civil Authority Airport s Rastriya Aviation Aviation of India s Uran Aviation Security of India s Uran Security Academy Civil Flying Aviation Flying Air Departmen Clubs Air Private Taxi Departmen Airlines t India Airlines FIGURE 1.1: CIVIL AVITION SET UP IN INDIA 1 1.2.1 DGCA The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is the Indian governmental regulatory body for civil aviation under the Ministry of Civil Aviation. This directorate investigates aviation accidents and incidents. It is headquartered along Sri Aurobindo Marg, opposite Safdarjung Airport, in New Delhi. Endeavour to promote safe and efficient Air Transportation through regulation and proactive safety oversight system. 1.2.2 BCAS The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is an agency of the Ministry of Civil Aviation of India. Its head office is on the first through third floors of the A Wing of the Janpath Bhawan along Janpath Road in New Delhi. The agency has four regional offices, located at Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, Chennai International Airport in Chennai, and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata. 1.2.3 AAI The Airports Authority of India (AAI) under the Ministry of Civil Aviation is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure in India. It provides Air traffic management (ATM) services over Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. 1.2.4 PRIVATE AIRPORTS The airports in India are categories as Custom, Domestic, International, Defence, Future and Privates. Private Airports are used for specific purpose. List of private airports in India are: • Sri Sathya Sai Airport, Andhra Pradesh • OP Jindal Airport, Chhattisgarh • Mehsana Airport, Gujarat • Vidyanagar Airport, Karnataka 2 • Amravati Airport, Shirpur Airport, Baramati Airport, Gondia Airport, Maharashtra • Savitri Jindal Airport, Barbil Tonto Aerodrome, Jajpur Airstrip, Kendujhar Airstrip, Lanjigarh Airstrip, Phulbani Airstrip, Rourkela Airport, Odisha etc. 1.2.5 AIR LINES The total fleet size of commercial airlines in India was 371 by 20 February 2013. In 1994, the Air Corporation Act of 1953 was repealed with a view to remove monopoly of air corporations on scheduled services, enable private airlines to operate scheduled service, convert Indian Airlines and Air India to limited companies and enable private participation in the national carriers. Since 1990 private airline companies were allowed to operate air taxi services, resulting in the establishment of Jet Airways and Air Sahara. These changes in the Indian aviation policies resulted in the increase of the share of private airline operators in domestic passenger carriage to 68.5% in 2005 from a meagre 0.4% in 1991 1.2.6 IGRUA Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) is a premier pilot training institute of India. It’s an autonomous institution and comes under Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. Course offered are : Commercial Pilot License (CPL), Simulator training. 1.3 FUNCTION • Design, Development, Operation and Maintenance of international and domestic airports and civil enclaves. • Control and Management of the Indian airspace extending beyond the territorial limits of the country, as accepted by ICAO. • Construction, Modification and Management of passenger terminals. • Development and Management of cargo terminals at international and domestic airports. • Provision of passenger facilities and information system at the passenger terminals at airports. 3 • Expansion and strengthening of operation area, viz. Runways, Aprons, Taxiway etc. • Provision of visual aids. • Provision of Communication and Navigation aids, viz. ILS, DVOR, DME, Radar etc. 1.4 AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA Airports Authority of India (AAI) was build by an Act of Parliament and came into being on 1st April, 1995 by merging erstwhile National Airports Authority and International Airports Authority of India.AAI at various airports handled about 5 lakhs aircraft movements (4 lakhs domestic and 1 lakh international); 40 million passengers (26 million domestic and 14 million international) and 9 lakh tonnes of cargo (3 lakh domestic and 6 lakh international). AAI manages 126 airports, which include 11 international airports, 89 domestic airports and 26 civil enclaves at Defence airfields. 1.5 BACKGROUND The Government of India constituted the International Airports Authority of India (IAAI) in 1972 to manage the nation's international airports while the National Airports Authority (NAA) was constituted in 1986 to look after domestic airports. The organisations were merged in April 1995 by an Act of Parliament and was named as Airports Authority of India (AAI). This new organisation was to be responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure both on the ground and air space in the country. 1.6 OPERATIONS 1.6.6PASSENGER FACILITIES • Construction, modification & management of passenger terminals, development & management of cargo terminals, development & maintenance of apron infrastructure including runways, parallel taxiways, apron etc. 4 • Provision of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance which includes provision of DVOR / DME, ILS, ATC radars, visual aids etc., provision of air traffic services, provision of passenger facilities and related amenities at its terminals thereby ensuring safe and secure operations of aircraft, passenger and cargo in the country. 1.6.7AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES In tune with its global approach to modernise Air Traffic Control (ATC) infrastructure for seamless navigation across state and regional boundaries, AAI is upgrading to satellite based Communication, Navigation, Surveillance (CNS) and Air Traffic Management. A number of co-operation agreements and memoranda of co-operation have been signed with the Federal Aviation Administration, US Trade & Development Agency, European Union, Air Services Australia and the French Government Co-operative Projects and Studies initiated to gain from their experience. 1.6.8IT IMPLEMENTATION AAI website is a website giving a host of information about the organization besides domestic and international flight schedules and such other information of interest to the public in general and passengers in particular. 1.6.9HRD TRAINING AAI has a number of training establishments, viz. NIAMAR in Delhi, CATC in Allahabad, Fire Training Centres at Delhi & Kolkata for in-house training of its engineers, Air Traffic Controllers, Rescue & Fire Fighting personnel etc. NIAMAR & 5 CATC are members of ICAO TRAINER programme under which they share Standard Training Packages (STP) from a central pool for imparting training on various subjects. 1.6.10 REVENU Most of AAI's revenue is generated from landing/parking fees and fees collected by providing CNS & ATC services to aircraft over the Indian airspace. 1.7 AAI, JAIPUR Jaipur Airport (IATA: JAI, ICAO: VIJP) is in the southern suburb of Sanganer, 13 km from Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Jaipur airport is the only international airport in the state of Rajasthan. It was granted the status of international airport on 29 December 2005. The civil apron can accommodate 14 A320 aircraft and the new terminal building can handle up to 1000 passengers at a time. There are plans to extend the runway to 12,000 ft (3,658 m) and expand the terminal building to accommodate 1,000 passengers per hour. The runway is now being extended to 11,500 ft (3,505 m). This extension will help to land big planes such as Boeing 747 and Airbus A380. Thus, the air traffic will be more and the international destinations will be also more. This project will be completed on July 2015. 1.8 STRUCTURE OF AAI, JAIPUR The new domestic terminal building at Jaipur Airport was inaugurated on 1 July 2009.The new terminal has an area of 22,950 sqm, is made of glass and steel structure having modern passenger friendly facilities such as central heating system, central air conditioning, inline x-ray baggage inspection system integrated with the departure conveyor system, inclined arrival baggage claim carousels, escalators, public address system, flight information display system (FIDS), CCTV for surveillance, airport check-in counters with Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE), car parking, etc. The International Terminal Building has peak hour passenger handling capacity of 500 passengers and annual 6 handling capacity of 400,000.The entrance gate , made of sandstone and Dholpur stones along with Rajasthani paintings on the walls, give tourists a glimpse of the Rajasthani culture. Two fountains on both sides of the terminal, dotted with palm trees, maintain normal temperature within the airport premises. The transparent side walls of the building have adjustable shades