Andhra Pradesh is aiming to spice up aviation within the State with a robust emphasis on personal funding and public-private partnership (PPP) fashions for creating airports and allied infrastructure by way of the New Aviation Coverage 2024-30.
The coverage, issued by the State Division of Investments and Infrastructure, lays out a complete roadmap overlaying every little thing from worldwide airports and regional airfields to low-cost “no-frills” airports, water aerodromes and heliports.
The State Authorities has set a goal of guaranteeing that each area in Andhra Pradesh has entry to airport services inside a radius of round 150 km. As a part of this, will probably be establishing 10 Greenfield airports and 10 water drones over the following 4 years.
As per the brand new Aviation Coverage, other than Bhogapuram Worldwide Airport, which is ready for inauguration quickly, new airports will come up new capital Amaravati, at Dagadarthi (Nellore), Kuppam (Chittor), Palasa (Srikakulam), Nagarjunasagar (Palnadu), Tuni (Kakinda), Ongole (Prakasam), Tadepalligudem (West Godavari) and Anantapur.
It has recognized 10 areas for creating water aerodromes to help tourism and regional connectivity. The proposed stretches embrace Gandipochamma-Pochavaram (45 km), Antarvedi-Razole (30 km), Dowleswaram Barrage-Kadiyam (5 km), each banks of the Godavari close to Rajahmundry (5 km), Vijayawada-Amaravati (45 km), Muktyala-Puttagudem (20 km), Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam (97 km), Srisailam Reservoir-Somasila (84 km) and Gandikota-Mylavaram (10 km).
The coverage underlines the State Authorities’s intention to leverage personal capital to create a multi-modal aviation ecosystem and place Andhra Pradesh as a serious aviation and logistics hub on the japanese seaboard.
In accordance with the coverage doc, the initiative seeks to strengthen air connectivity, construct air cargo and logistics infrastructure, promote aviation talent improvement and create an ecosystem for aerospace manufacturing and upkeep, restore and overhaul (MRO) providers.
PPP MODEL
A key function of the coverage is its heavy reliance on personal participation. The Authorities proposes to develop most aviation infrastructure tasks by way of the PPP route, together with main greenfield airports.
Whereas the greenfield airport at Bhogapuram is already being applied underneath the PPP mannequin, the proposed airport for Amaravati may even be taken up on comparable traces. Builders chosen for such tasks can be supplied long-term lease preparations.
The coverage envisages extending the PPP framework to smaller airstrips, heliports and water aerodromes as properly.
Airport Cities
To enhance the monetary viability of airport tasks, the State plans to encourage non-aeronautical income streams. Builders can be allowed to determine industrial and supporting infrastructure akin to workplace complexes, resorts, conference centres, healthcare services, commerce and logistics hubs, enterprise parks, manufacturing items and talent improvement centres.
The Authorities additionally intends to advertise financial clusters round chosen airports and develop them into built-in “airport cities.” These tasks, too, can be applied by way of long-term leases underneath the PPP mannequin.
Revealed on June 7, 2026
