Public sector undertaking Airports Authority of India has paid a final dividend of Rs 482.21 crore to the government for 2015-16 financial year.
The national airports operator, which manages 125 airports, including 18 international ones, had achieved a record turnover of Rs 10,825 crore in the fiscal year ending March 2016. Indian carriers flew 21.6 percent more passengers last fiscal on account of cheaper airfares due to low fuel prices as compared to 2014-15.
Its profit stood at Rs 2,537 crore in FY2015-16, 30 percent higher than the profit reported in 2014-15.
AAI presented a cheque amounting to Rs 482.21 crore as final dividend to the government for FY2015-16 yesterday, AAI said in a release.
AAI is a consistently profit making PSU and paying dividend to its owner, the Central Government, the release said.
For FY2015-16, AAI's topline stood at Rs 10,825 crore, which was 17 percent higher than Rs 9,285 crore in the previous fiscal.
This was the first time in the history of the airport operator that its revenue breached Rs 10,000 crore mark.
Aircraft movement across airports in the country surged 11.9 percent to 17,93,610 FY2015-16 compared to 16,03,021 in FY15. The number of fliers rose by 17.6 percent to 22,36,15,522 in FY2015-16 as against 19,01 29,158 passengers in fiscal year ended March 2015.
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