Reliance Industries (Mukesh Ambani) has received Airports Authority of India's approval to set up aviation fuel business at 25 non-metro airports. Land is being allocated to the company at these airports and Reliance will set up its own infrastructure for storage and retailing of ATF.

The 25 airports where Reliance is setting up ATF business include Hyderabad, Juhu airport at Mumbai (used for helicopters), Guwahati, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Amritsar, Varanasi, Bhuvaneshwar, Ranchi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Udaipur, Vadodara, Aurangabad, Madurai, Raipur, Gaya, Jabalpur, Juhu, Belgaum, Agartala, Imphal, Dimapur, Bhavnagar, Kandla and Porbandar.

While AAI has already cleared Reliance’s selection in 12 airports, negotiations are being concluded for the remaining 13 airports to finalize throughput charges.

As of now, public sector companies IOC, BPCL and HPCL are the only ATF suppliers at Indian airports.

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