Speaking on “Air Traffic Services: Limitation and Trends,” here on Thursday, he said most airports in the country would be saturated due to constraints in infrastructure. “There would be a mismatch between the space available at the airports and the flight movements. In the last three years, the aviation sector has been witnessing a 30 per cent growth annually. By 2020, the domestic sector is expected to grow at 30 per cent and the international sector by 20 per cent with 400 million passengers,”  he said.

The authorities have to review the existing civil aviation rules and upgrade the technology and infrastructure facilities apart from building new airport with the existing ones. “New airports should come up while retaining the existing ones, the Air Traffic Systems should be restructured along with building new parallel runways with parallel and rapid exit apart from privatising the Air Traffic Control,” he added.

Among the airports in India, he said Mumbai and New Delhi airports were busiest with 720 movements and 600 plus movements respectively followed by the HAL Airport in Bangalore which witnesses 350 flight landings per day.