Adani Group Acquires 74 Percent Stake in Mumbai Airport, Becomes India’s Largest Private Operator

Billionaire Gautam’s Adani Group has procured the majority stake at the Mumbai International Airport. Adani now has 74 percent stake in the Chattarpati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, 50.5 percent of which has been purchased from its past operator GVK Group and 23.5 percent from other minority accomplices including Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), and Bidvest Group.

With this buyout, Adani is currently the nation’s greatest private airport operator. This is the first significant air terminal win for Adani Group, one of the biggest homegrown combination who has as of late entered airport operation business in India. 

An example of overcoming adversity in the Port activities remembering the India’s biggest port for Gujarat, Adani has won agreement to work six air terminals under the PPP understanding from the Aviation Ministry prior, including the airport of Jaipur and Thiruvananthapuram. 

The improvement comes after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had accused the GVK Group of redirecting reserves totalling Rs 705 crore. It is accused of causing lost Rs 310 crore to the exchequer by going into counterfeit work contracts on the land given by the administration to MIAL. 

With GVK Group’s accounts under strain, it has now come around to offering the stake to Adani Group. Mumbai Airport is the nation’s second busiest air terminal. 

With the six non-metro airport and MIAL, Adani Group will turn into the biggest operator of airports other than state-run AAI, which runs the vast majority of the airports. Adani Enterprises in its yearly report revealed its aspiration to be the biggest private air terminal designer in the nation by creating a-list framework at air terminals, both at airside and landside, improving the traveller experience, making amusement objections (air terminal town, inns, and shopping centers). 

To accomplish the point, it additionally plans to build local aircraft network to new and under-served destinations, and furthermore raise the number of flights to long-haul destinations in the West and furthermore to South-East Asia.