Rajender Singh Lahauria, Airport Director, Airports Authority of India, India

Speaker Biograghy: Rajender Singh Lahauria is an alumnus of St. Edmund’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya, India with a degree in Science and an MBA. He has 25 years' experience in aviation in various capacities with Airports Authority of India. After a one-year ab-initio course at the Civil Aviation Training College, Allahabad, India, he joined Kolkata Airport as Aerodrome Officer in 1991. He has all the ATC ratings (both Radar and Procedural) of Kolkata Airport. He has undertaken various aviation training in India and abroad and is an ACI-ICAO AMPAP graduate. He has been working as Airport Director, JPNI Airport, Patna, India since May 2015, looking after overall management of airport and air navigation systems. He is a member of the Executive Committee, Aeronautical Society of India, Kolkata Chapter, and has been published in the Safety Management Manual, Airside Operation, Kolkata Airport and the Safety Management Manual, Air Traffic Services, Kolkata Airport. Personal fact: Hobbies: singing old Hindi songs.


Day 1 - 20 March
Session: Management & Operations

12:00 - 12:30 - Operation from small, old terminal building and limited bays
Synopsis: In the last decade, passenger traffic has grown way beyond the expectations of airport operators. Operators such as Patna Airport in India are having great difficulty handling the growing traffic with the old infrastructure in parking bays and the terminal building. Considering the land acquisition, environmental clearances and the development of terminal building/parking bays/runway etc. to cater for traffic growth for at least 20 years, construction would take at least five years. Therefore, catering for the existing traffic growth requires the art of management and operation with the present limited infrastructure available until the new development comes up.

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