It is in the disconnect between the second airport plans for Mumbai and Delhi and work on the new airports for Bangalore and Hyderabad that the draft civil aviation policy seems to be flying blind. In the case of the former, a change in the "minimum 150 km separation" rule is being envisaged to facilitate a convenient second airport. In the latter, the government has already agreed to the private consortium's requirement to close existing airports once the greenfield airports are ready.
