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If you were planning a Goa trip this summer you might need to shell out some extra this time. All this is because Indian <keyword id="42407" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Navy">Navy</keyword> will be using <keyword id="76742" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dabolim-airport">Dabolim Airport</keyword> in Goa for their drill for next six months from April onwards. Navy control the Goa airport by more than 10% and has started reducing flight movements. 
 "<keyword id="3922491" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Indian-Navy">The Indian Navy</keyword> has informed us that they will reduce the number of flights allowed between 12:30 and 15:30 by about 15 flights due to operational reasons. It is a reduction of about five flights per hour from 15 flights per hour allowed earlier," an <keyword id="54875" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Airports-Authority-of-India">Airports Authority of India</keyword> (<keyword id="47439" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Aai">AAI</keyword>) official, who did not want to be identified, told The <keyword id="6474066" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="economic-times">Economic Times</keyword>. 
 
However, travel experts fear this would negatively impact the flight business as well as the tourism portfolio of India’s most preferred sea destination. As the flights go down in number, the air fares would definitely sky rocket. 
 "It is a big negative for airlines as well as travel and tourism sector in that area. Any reduction in capacity, when the market is growing, would lead to a spike in fares in and out of Goa. High fares might impact tourism in Goa too," <keyword id="332366" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sharat-Dhall">Sharat Dhall</keyword>, chief operating officer at Yatra-.com, India's second-largest online travel portal told ET. 
 "Aviation minister <keyword id="2128920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ashok-Gajapathi-Raju">Ashok Gajapathi Raju</keyword> has written to Parrikar. The ministers are likely to sit together to discuss the issue," the senior aviation ministry official told the financial daily.

You would need to pay more for flights to Goa for six months from April. Here's why

Mumbai, Jan 19 () Aviation consultancy firm CAPA has said it expects the second international airport in Goa to be ready for operations in next three years. 
 The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the decks for construction of an international airport by the GMR Group at Mopa in North Goa by lifting suspension on environmental clearance (EC) granted for the project.
 Immediately after SC's order, the GMR Group said it plans to start work soon for the new aerodrome.
 The top court had early last year suspended the EC granted for the greenfield airport and had directed the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) to revisit the decision in light of its impact on the ecology there.
 "Delays in critical infrastructure projects is costly for the economy and the consumer. It is good that GMR Group's Mopa project finally got clearance. We can look forward to new airport in next three years," CAPA South Asia Chief Executive Officer Kapil Kaul told .
 The state government had initially given September 2020 as the deadline for commissioning of the estimated Rs 3,000 crore airport project after GMR Group won bids for development and operations of the aerodrome in 2016, beating state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Essel Infra-Incheon.
 However, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said in the Assembly last year that he was expecting the airport to be completed by 2021.
 Kaul also said that the the delay is likely to push up the project cost, but its impact could be minimised.
 "There will be cost escalation but GMR has the ability to minimise the impact," he said.
 GMR had last year said it was incurring a loss of Rs 50 lakh per day on account of suspension of work at the project.
 The new airport, which under the concession agreement offers 232 acres of land for commercial city side development for a period of 60 years, would have a capacity to handle 30 million passengers annually once fully operational.
 The existing airport at Dabolim, which was designed to handle 50 lakh passengers per year, has far exceeded its capacity and AAI has already embarked on an expansion plan to increase the capacity to 1.30 crore passengers per annum by 2022. 
 The concession period for the greenfield project will be 40 years with a possible extension of another 20 years through a bid process.
 The airport will be built under the BOT (Build Operate Transfer) model.
 The regulatory regime for the concession will be hybrid till with 30 per cent cross subsidy.
 Under the hybrid till model, only up to 30 per cent of the non-aeronautical revenues, which include segments like retail, food and beverages and parking, would be used for cross-subsidisation of aeronautical charges. 
 Aeronautical charges include those related to route and terminal navigation services. IAS RVK

Goa's 2nd international airport in Mopa to be ready in 3 years: CAPA

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Peak monsoon was still in its last vestiges and the place had been closed for a long time, it was only normal for the place to smell musty, we comforted each other. But once we’d taken care of our sodden selves and equally sodden luggage, we got a closer look at our accommodation — the one we had booked after much deliberation and thoroughly going through the reviews. The place didn’t just reek of mould, the black stuff was everywhere and the smell wasn’t going anywhere. One asthmatic looked to the other, knowing that staying here for the entire duration of our trip was out of the question. Amongst them, the socially awkward one told the people-pleasey one to speak with the host and inform him of what was going on. When we texted our “superhost”, he offered to shift us to another property he owned in the same building. But lo and behold, that flat was just as bad, if not worse. 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A <keyword id="6358200" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Jet-Airways">Jet Airways</keyword> flight carrying 161 passengers veered off the runway at Goa Airport while taking off. 
 
The Mumbai-bound flight skid off the runway at 5.30 am at Dabolim airport, resulting in minor injuries to passengers during evacuation. 
 
"Jet Airways regrets to inform that its flight 9W 2374, from GOI - BOM of today, with 154 guests and 7 crew, veered off the runway while aligning for takeoff. All guests and crew have been safely evacuated. Few guests have sustained injuries during the evacuation process and medical assistance is being coordinated by the Jet Airways team and the airport authorities," the airline spokesperson said. 
 
Flight 9W 2374 which had arrived from Dubai and was bound for Mumbai, was about to take off when it skidded off the runway. 
 
When the evacuation was on, the aircraft tilted forward, an eyewitness said, triggering panic among passengers. Navy sources said 15 people suffered "minor injuries and fractures" in the process. 
 
"When people were getting down the plane, it suddenly tilted forward triggering panic and chaos," a passenger told a PTI reporter. 
 
The airline is closely working with the local airport authorities to resume normal operations. The airline is making alternate travel arrangements for its guests to and from Goa in order to minimise inconvenience.

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