Airlines (Adampur Airport) make it profitabilty. AIP
Why Adampur Airport’s UDAN Routes Aren’t Profitable Adampur Airport (AIP) in Punjab was revived under India’s UDAN scheme with a new ₹130 crore ($15.6M) terminal opened in 2024 linkedin.com . Yet traffic remains low – just 35,220 passengers in FY2024–25 (a 194% jump from the previous year, but still tiny) en.wikipedia.org . Star Air has run daily flights to Delhi (via Hindon, Ghaziabad) under UDAN, carrying only ~15,500 people between Apr–Sep 2024 (avg. load ~52%) aviationa2z.com . SpiceJet briefly flew Adampur–Delhi (IGI), Jaipur and Mumbai under UDAN but pulled out amid “substantial losses” aviationa2z.com . In short, airlines are losing money even with subsidies, because passenger demand is too weak.but that;s not true but due to other factors Even established carriers have struggled. A SpiceJet Dash-8 Q400 (foreground) and an IndiGo A320 (background) are shown at Delhi. SpiceJet’s ATR flights from Adampur were unprofitable, leading it to abandon routes aviationa2z.c...