<p>New Delhi:<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/adani-group"> Adani Group</a>'s airport business chief Arun Bansal on Friday called for open source and interoperable passenger processing systems at airports, saying that at present, there is a monopoly of vendors offering the systems.</p>.<p>Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (AAHL) manages seven airports and is also developing the Navi Mumbai airport.</p>.Most Adani Group firms hit lower circuit limit as Lok Sabha election result defies expectations .<p>AAHL CEO Bansal said the passenger processing systems are not interoperable today.</p>.<p>"There is a monopoly of these vendors, and I really want Indian software developers to come up and create a passenger processing system that is open source, open in nature," he said, adding that it is working with regulators in this regard.</p>.<p>AAHL is also collaborating with Indian software companies to develop an indigenous software stack for passenger processing systems.</p>.<p>When asked whether the group is planning to develop an open-source system, Bansal replied in the negative.</p>.<p>"We are not planning to develop. There are a lot of Indian software companies that are best in class. We are collaborating with them to develop an indigenous software stack," he said.</p>.<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the CAPA India Aviation Summit 2024, Bansal also said there is no policy change required with respect to having an open-source system.</p>.<p>"There is no policy change required. The existing software players have made it a close loop where you can't mix and match whereas the whole world is going to the open source," he noted.</p>.<p>Currently, AAHL manages seven airports at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.</p>.<p>India is one of the world's fastest-growing civil aviation markets, and both domestic and international traffic are on the rise.</p>.<p>India's domestic air traffic is expected to rise 6-8 per cent to 161 to 164 million in the current financial year, while international air traffic is projected to jump 9-11 per cent to 75 to 78 million in the current fiscal, aviation advisory firm CAPA India said on Wednesday. </p>
<p>New Delhi:<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/adani-group"> Adani Group</a>'s airport business chief Arun Bansal on Friday called for open source and interoperable passenger processing systems at airports, saying that at present, there is a monopoly of vendors offering the systems.</p>.<p>Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (AAHL) manages seven airports and is also developing the Navi Mumbai airport.</p>.Most Adani Group firms hit lower circuit limit as Lok Sabha election result defies expectations .<p>AAHL CEO Bansal said the passenger processing systems are not interoperable today.</p>.<p>"There is a monopoly of these vendors, and I really want Indian software developers to come up and create a passenger processing system that is open source, open in nature," he said, adding that it is working with regulators in this regard.</p>.<p>AAHL is also collaborating with Indian software companies to develop an indigenous software stack for passenger processing systems.</p>.<p>When asked whether the group is planning to develop an open-source system, Bansal replied in the negative.</p>.<p>"We are not planning to develop. There are a lot of Indian software companies that are best in class. We are collaborating with them to develop an indigenous software stack," he said.</p>.<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the CAPA India Aviation Summit 2024, Bansal also said there is no policy change required with respect to having an open-source system.</p>.<p>"There is no policy change required. The existing software players have made it a close loop where you can't mix and match whereas the whole world is going to the open source," he noted.</p>.<p>Currently, AAHL manages seven airports at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.</p>.<p>India is one of the world's fastest-growing civil aviation markets, and both domestic and international traffic are on the rise.</p>.<p>India's domestic air traffic is expected to rise 6-8 per cent to 161 to 164 million in the current financial year, while international air traffic is projected to jump 9-11 per cent to 75 to 78 million in the current fiscal, aviation advisory firm CAPA India said on Wednesday. </p>