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Business models of airports will have to be reworked: AAI chairman Arvind Singh
NEW DELHI: Around midnight on Sunday, a Delhi-bound IndiGo flight is scheduled to depart from Bengaluru. If all goes as planned, it will be the first commercial flight since the country went into a lockdown on 25 March. More importantly, it will set the ball rolling to spur the Indian economy. In an interview, Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman Arvind Singh, who is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure ahead of the resumption of domestic flights, shares his views on the prospects of the Indian aviation sector in the post-covid-19 world. Edited excerpts: