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Q1 FY2027 · Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 13, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the GMR Airports Limited conference call to discuss Q1 FY 2027 results. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes.

Should you need assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star, then zero on your touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded.

We have with us today Mr. Saurabh Chawla, Executive Director, Finance and Strategy.

Before we begin, I would like to state that some of the statements made in today's discussion may be forward-looking in nature and may involve risks and uncertainties. Also, recording or transcribing of this call without prior permission of the management is strictly prohibited.

I now hand the conference over to Mr. Saurabh Chawla for opening remarks.

Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Saurabh Chawla

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. I'm delighted to begin this by sharing a significant milestone in our journey.

GMR Airports family has further expanded with the addition of Nagpur Airport and Bhogapuram International Airport to our operating portfolio. We assumed operations of Nagpur Airport on 25th June, while Bhogapuram was inaugurated by the honorable Prime Minister of India on 1st August, and is scheduled to commence commercial operations on 17th of August.

Notably, all scheduled commercial passenger operations currently handled at existing Visakhapatnam Airport will transition to Bhogapuram, creating a new aviation gateway for North Andhra Pradesh. Bhogapuram is particularly special for us.

Completing a greenfield airport of this scale ahead of schedule reflects the strength of our execution capabilities, deep operational expertise, and the commitment of our teams. While the sector is navigating through the challenges arising from the geopolitical developments in the Middle East as well as in Ukraine and Russia, we continue to believe that the long-term fundamentals of air travel remain exceptionally strong.

The International Air Transport Association, IATA, projects Asia-Pacific passenger traffic to increase from approximately 1.7 billion passengers in 2024 to 4.1 billion passengers by 2044, with India expected to remain one of the most important contributors to this growth. Importantly, the vision of transforming India into a global aviation hub is no longer a future aspiration.

It has already begun to take shape. On the aviation business perspective, Air India has launched its hub-and-spoke strategy with Delhi Airport as country's first operational hub, enabling passengers from cities such as Varanasi and Amritsar to complete check-in and immigration formalities at their origin airport and seamlessly connect to international destinations through Delhi.

In fact, the Delhi state government's decision to reduce VAT on ATF from 25% to 7% with effect from 16th May is proving a level playing field for Delhi Airport, aiding the envisioned hub strategy. At the same time, Indian carriers are entering a new phase of international expansion, with Air India set to restore most of its international services from September 1, while IndiGo and other airlines are are expanding their international operations and fleet size.

These developments are creating a powerful multiplier effect for airport operators, particularly the hub airports, as growth extends beyond passenger volumes into the non-aeronautical revenue streams and commercial land development. On that note, let me now delve into our quarter one performance.

Momentum in total income continued, with quarter one at INR 40.8 billion, up 23% year-on-year. More than 50% of this income came from non-aero businesses, and about a third also came from the aero revenue.

EBITDA for the quarter grew 22% year-on-year to INR 15.7 billion. PAT for the quarter came at INR 1.5 billion versus a loss of INR 1.4 billion in quarter one of fiscal '26.

Reported quarterly PAT has remained positive for the fourth consecutive quarter. Consolidated net debt, excluding FCCBs of INR 28.9 billion, which are deep in the money, remained unchanged versus last quarter at INR 340 billion.

Combined net debt of Delhi and Hyderabad Airport decreased by INR 5.9 billion, offset by the increase of INR 3.1 billion at Bhogapuram and INR 2.9 billion at GAL standalone. On the operational front, traffic at GAL-operated airports rose 1% year-on-year in quarter one fiscal '27, reaching 30.5 million passengers.

This excludes the traffic at Cebu. On a quarterly basis, India's international traffic share handled by GAL-operated airports was highest in past 4 years.

However, as we have been alluding to in the recent past, we expect traffic to remain soft in the first half of fiscal '27 and recover only in the second half of fiscal '27. This I would also like to highlight that we have some seasonality on a quarterly basis.

Hyderabad has been impacted by the ongoing West Asian geopolitical instability, exposure to migrant Gulf routes, and rising airfares, while on domestic front, impact is due to the route rationalization by certain airlines. We see some green shoots emerging as Air India plans to restore most suspended domestic and international flights from September onwards after cutting up to 15% capacity during June to August.

Total income at Delhi Airport rose 17% year-on-year to INR 20.7 billion. Aero revenues rose 24% year-on-year, and non-aero revenues increased 13% year-on-year.

EBITDA for quarter one was up 11% year-on-year to INR 7 billion. With this, the airport has reported profit of INR 0.7 billion for quarter one fiscal '27, making it the fifth consecutive quarter of positive PAT.

At Hyderabad, total income for quarter one was INR 6.3 billion, almost unchanged year-on-year, while aero revenues fell 7% year-on-year, non-aero revenues increased by 12% year-on-year. EBITDA for quarter one is almost unchanged year-on-year at INR 3.9 billion.

PAT for the quarter was INR 847 million, up 35% year-on-year. Mopa or Goa Airport reported a total income of INR 1.3 billion in quarter one, up 23% year-on-year.

Aero revenue increased 31% year-on-year as tariffs reverted to normal post discontinuation of special incentive plan. Non-aero revenues increased by 8% year-on-year.

Notable achievements during the quarter are combined aero yield per pax, or YPP, in quarter one fiscal '27 was INR 445 for Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mopa, and non-aero income per pax, or IPP, was INR 691. This includes the revenues from non-aero businesses adjusted for revenue share paid to airports and non-aero revenues reported by Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mopa Goa airports.

To clarify, MRO and Hyderabad Airport hotel are not part of the above IPP number. Non-aero and aero performance improved sequentially despite muted traffic.

Coming to our non-aero adjacency business, duty-free revenue at Delhi and Hyderabad was stable versus quarter four despite softness in international traffic. At both airports, duty-free achieved highest monthly spend per passenger in June '26.

At Hyderabad, the new, larger duty-free store is ready, expanding the store size from 400 square meters to 1,300 square meters. That will enable us to introduce new categories and products.

GAL will participate in bids for non-aero adjacency businesses that are re-bid by airports as and when the respective concessions at the airports end. Construction on multiple airport land development projects is underway, details of which are available in the results presentation.

Fiscal '27 will see the handover of DIAL's first self-development commercial building at Delhi Aerocity, where the pre-leasing discussions are already underway. At Mopa or Goa, sub-license agreements were signed for a retail interchange, a MICE hotels, as well as a K-to-12 day day school, while at Bhogapuram, a hotel under the Vivanta brand is in final stages of construction.

CARE upgraded the credit rating of GAL to CARE A+ positive stable from INR 15 15 billion NCDs, as well as long-term bank facilities, and for CARE A1+ from CARE A1 for short-term business facilities. MRO business signed a agreement with Honeywell Aerospace for maintenance, repair, and overhaul of seven Honeywell Aerospace line replacement units installed on LEAP engines powering Airbus 320neos and Boeing 737 MAX.

In line with our responsibility as a leading airport infrastructure company, sustainability remains deeply embedded in the way we design, build, and operate our assets. Across our portfolio, we continue to focus on decarbonization, renewable energy adoption, water stewardship, waste management, operational efficiency, and community development.

The ESG achievements highlighted in our investor presentation reflect our commitment to responsible growth while maintaining the highest standards of governance, safety, and operational excellence. As we expand our footprint, sustainability will continue to remain a core pillar of our strategy and a key enabler of long-term value creation.

In closing, GMR Airports today is a very different from what it used to be a few years ago. We have evolved from being primarily an airport operator into an integrated airport infrastructure platform with growing exposure to commercial development, retail, duty-free, cargo, MRO, and hospitality, and the airport-linked urban ecosystems.

As these businesses continue to scale, we expect an increasingly diversified and resilient earnings profile that will complement our core airport operations and strengthen long-term value creation for all stakeholders. The presentation with all financial numbers is already available with you.

If not, you can download it from our IR section of our website. We are available to respond to your questions on this call and offline after the call.

Now I would like to open the forum for queries that can that will be addressed by my colleagues from corporate and business teams. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session.

Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touchtone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two.

Participants are requested to use their handsets while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles.

Participants, if you wish to ask a question, please press star and one. We take the first question from the line of Prateek Kumar from Jefferies.

Please go ahead.

Prateek Kumar

Hi. Good morning.

Good morning, sir. A few questions.

Firstly, on the Hyderabad Airport traffic being extremely weak in recent quarters, could you highlight any initiatives specifically which you might be taking to revive traffic related to some loss of hub traffic to competing airports? What should be our growth expectation for this airport for FY '27, '28 in current environment?

GRK Babu

As far as Hyderabad Airport is concerned, I think new routes also being now opened for the international. As far as the domestic is concerned, efforts are being made to provide some incentives to the airlines.

As it is, we have not lost the traffic to any competing airports. It is a all India phenomena except Delhi, which has got a growth.

The traffic what we are expecting in '26, '27 is more or less of the last year traffic, about 30.5 to 31 million.

Saurabh Chawla

Prateek, again I want to highlight over here is that whilst yes, as a component, Hyderabad and Delhi form a bulk of our traffic, but as we have now made this into a platform, there are multiple streams of revenue that flow into our consolidated results. In our May call, we had already highlighted that there will be a soft first half based on the airlines' inputs as they rationalized their routes, and now as we speak right now, they're giving you a much more robust outlook for the second half of this year, given again the inputs that we have from the airlines as they come back with an expanded capacity.

Prateek Kumar

Sure. My other question is on the new AERA tariff framework which has been talked about.

Would you debate on AERA's thinking around proposed shift under which airports should be allowed to recover aero charges only after completion of underlying capex? What this could mean for your tariff expectation, which you talked about of increasing versus prior periods for the next control period?

GRK Babu

Are you referring to the incremental IRR concept of AERA, or which one you are referring?

Prateek Kumar

Incremental IRR. Last quarter, we guided for our aero YPP at Hyderabad will be higher versus of prior control period.

What is our expectation now in new framework? I know it is still in discussion, consultation phase, but how should we think for modeling purpose?

GRK Babu

Modeling purpose, conceptually, it is actually one and the same. There is not much difference between earlier concept and new concept.

What the regulator has mentioning is that the increased tariff will be provided once the asset is put to use, complete construction is completed. However, the good thing is in the consultation paper of Hyderabad, we can also see he has already acknowledged that INR 13,800 crore is being spent by Hyderabad Airport, and accordingly, the tariffs also will go up soon after the construction is completed.

That is what his recommendation. However, we have already made a request to the regulator that the moment if you provide the increase in tariff after put to use, then there will be a sudden spike in the tariffs.

To equalize it over a period of time, we have still suggested the regulator that the current methodology should be continued, and airlines are also expressed this more or less the same view, though they did not say specifically, because they also do not want any spike suddenly. In case of Hyderabad, for example, September '29 when the construction completes, the current tariff which we have proposed, 485, will become almost 900, but that is not advisable for the airlines as well as airports.

We have suggested the regulator, regulator has actually requested us to come back with a revised formula. More or less, we will be sticking on to the existing methodology only.

We have to still wait and see how the regulator is going to respond.

Prateek Kumar

Okay. A question on other airports like Bhogapuram Airport based on the current ad hoc tariffs which came recently, what is the implied YPP and how does this compare versus your expectation of airport once operations scale up?

GRK Babu

The Bhogapuram Airport, the ad hoc tariff is basically regulator provides around 60% to 75% of the actual tariff only. He has given us the average yield of around INR 200 of ad hoc, and our expectation should be in the range of between INR 1,800 to INR 2,000 yield per pax.

Prateek Kumar

Regulator has given 200 versus expectation

GRK Babu

was

Prateek Kumar

1,800?

GRK Babu

No, no. 200 is the 200 is the ad hoc tariff, and normally regulator provides around between 60% to 75% of the actual tariff only they give as ad hoc.

They don't give nearer to the tariff. Our tariff expectation between INR 1,700 to INR 1,900 yield per pax, final tariff.

Prateek Kumar

Okay. Lastly, on Nagpur Airport, could you share FY '26 revenue, EBITDA for the airport?

GRK Babu

FY '26, no, because the last year, it was operated by MIHAN. They have closed with around INR 140 crore of the revenue, and EBITDA about INR 40 to 45 crore, if I'm correct, because they don't have any interest, they don't have anything else.

I think they have posted a PAT around INR 30, 35 crore.

Prateek Kumar

We will start paying 15% revenue share, or sorry, 18% revenue share on this 140 crore number scaling up, and that will result in lower EBITDA. How should we think of EBITDA in FY '27?

GRK Babu

No, we continue to pay 14.49% of the revenue share, that is as per the concession agreement, and we have already started because June we have already started July. EBITDA, their EBITDA and our EBITDA is not comparable because the way they operated non-aero revenue and other areas are very, very premature, whereas we are going to total ramp up the entire terminal as well as non-aero areas.

We are expecting that our EBITDA and profit should be much better.

Prateek Kumar

Sure, sir. I have more questions.

I will get back to the queue.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Nathan Gee from Bank of America.

Please go ahead. Hi.

Nathan Gee

Hi, sir. Thank you for the call.

Maybe two questions from me. Firstly, just in terms of Delhi, are you able to talk about 1Q costs?

I think they're up about 19% year-on-year. The drivers of that, and is that a good run rate for the next few quarters?

That's the first question. Second question is just in terms of short-term traffic, anything you can say around the July traffic trends, and so is June a good image for how July was trending?

Thank you.

GRK Babu

In case of the Delhi at the first quarter, the expenses have gone up on two fronts. One is being a summer, there is electricity charges have gone up by about INR 17, 18 crore.

The second one is airport operator fee is payable on the previous year turnover. The previous year turnover is more than INR 700, 800 crore, INR 800 on year-on basis.

That's why there is an extra provision towards the airport operator fee in the first quarter. These are the two major, and a small repair and maintenance about INR 10 crore extra has come up during this quarter.

It will be moderated over a period of the next three quarters.

Nathan Gee

That's great. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Karthik Chellappa from Indus Capital.

Please go ahead.

Karthik Chellappa

Hi. Thank you very much for the opportunity, sir.

Am I audible?

GRK Babu

Yeah.

Karthik Chellappa

Great. Sir, two questions from my side.

The first is as far as our standalone debt is concerned, I know you had highlighted in the past that this is likely to go up and it's more opportunistic because you are preparing to bid for various projects. At what point do you think the standalone debt is likely to peak?

GRK Babu

Currently, the standalone debt is standing around INR 7,400 crore. As of today, we have legroom another INR 200 crore only to raise as per the bondholders' covenants is concerned.

For the time being, we are not planning to raise any additional debt for it because we don't have any further requirement of investment. Nagpur, we have already done some investment, and as far as other projects are concerned, we have already made investment.

Right now, we are not planning for any additional debt. As

Saurabh Chawla

there's no opportunity right now. [laughs] We don't have an opportunity right now.

That's why I think the debt is peaking at about INR 7,400 crore and shall remain at this. If there is any opportunity which requires us to raise capital, then of course we will raise it, and along with that, there will be, of course, EBITDA contributions that will come against any debt raise that we do.

At this stage, I think from your modeling perspective, assume that it's about INR 7,400 crore.

Karthik Chellappa

What will be the average cost of this debt, sir?

GRK Babu

No, average cost of debt as of today is around 11%, 11.5% maximum, and another INR 1,500 crore is completing the make-whole period. We are now targeting below 10% for cost for refinancing of the INR 1,500 crore.

Our intention is the entire debt cost should come below 10% over the next 12 months period.

Saurabh Chawla

I just also want to clarify that the 7,400 is the gross debt number. The net debt number is about 6,400, INR 6,500 crore,

GRK Babu

because

Saurabh Chawla

it has cash also sitting on its books. I think from our tracking perspective, look at the net debt number as such.

Karthik Chellappa

Okay. This is useful.

The reason I ask is if I look at our first quarter interest liability on GAL standalone, which is roughly about INR 290 crore, if I just annualize it, let's say, about INR 1,200 crore or so, and if I take that on the gross debt amount, the interest cost implicitly comes to a much higher number than 11% to 11.5%. I'm just trying to see how do I reconcile that.

GRK Babu

I think the finance cost includes the FCCB interest also.

Saurabh Chawla

You need to exclude the FCCB interest.

Karthik Chellappa

Okay. The balance is basically the FCCB interest, which is...

That is fine.

Saurabh Chawla

FCCB, you should take it as equity because it's deep into money. The strike price is INR 43.40.

Because of the accounting standards, we need to recognize the interest on an accrual basis over there.

Karthik Chellappa

Excellent. My second question, sir, is if you look at Hyderabad, the traffic pressure, you already explained in your opening remarks.

If you look at the non-aero revenue growth, that has been very, very healthy. In fact, on a per pax basis, it is also up double digits, which is very, very commendable given the current circumstances.

Despite that, the absolute EBITDA didn't grow for Hyderabad. Apart from the non-aero revenue decline and the traffic pressure, are there any other nuances which also resulted in the EBITDA not growing, or is it just purely traffic and aero revenue decline driven?

GRK Babu

It is more or less purely on aero income, and as far as non-aero income is actually compensated the loss of revenue under aero income if you look at it the comparison of even Q4 to Q1 or Q1 or over Q1.

Karthik Chellappa

Okay. You said that the traffic improvement we expect in second half '27, but for the full year, Hyderabad traffic volume growth will more or less be flat year-on-year, if I heard that correctly.

Saurabh Chawla

Yes, you heard that correctly. It will remain flat as it was last year, and that is, honestly speaking, the soft part of our portfolio if you were to compare with fiscal '25.

Delhi is showing good growth, and hopefully, I think the second half will catch up for Hyderabad, but on a overall annual basis, it will be flat.

Karthik Chellappa

Excellent. I do have few follow-ups, but I'll come back in the queue.

Thank you very much, sir, and wish you and the team all the very best for the remaining quarters.

Saurabh Chawla

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Aditya Mongia from Kotak Institutional Equities.

Please go ahead.

Aditya Mongia

Thank you for the opportunity, and great set of results once again on non-aero. That being said, a few questions from my side.

The first question that I had was just on let's say loans that have been given from GAL to outside entities. I think it's a relevant number at about 2,000-odd crores, if I'm not wrong.

Since we have only as much of leeway remaining to invest from a gross debt perspective, is there any thought process of getting this money back, and then what are the timelines for the same?

Saurabh Chawla

Aditya, let me just give you a background. GAL never gave specific loans to its associate entity, which is GPUIL.

This is part of the demerger process that happened few years back. In the demerger process, as per the tax laws, you have to identify the end use of the debt that is raised of a of a merged entity, and as per that end use, you have to then allocate it to the two demerged entities.

This is the history behind this this current debt which is there in GAL's books. Second thing is GAL has already received last year, it received about 800, INR 850-odd crore from GPUIL, and this year also this year also, it is expected to receive another 1,000-odd crore.

There's a there is a there's a plan that is in place, which was agreed at the time of the demerger, that over a period of 4 to 5 years, GPUIL will continue to pay off its debt to GAL. It is it is continuing as per the plan, and we expect that over the next 3-odd years, the total money of about 2 and a half thousand crores plus the interest will be received from GPUIL to GAL.

That's the broad construct.

Aditya Mongia

Understood. Just a related question as in from a dividend perspective, this is obviously an inflow coming in, but then there'd also be certain covenants wherein the debt numbers have to first of all be paired down, I'm not sure.

Just trying to get a sense of is there a certain debt number to which you have to fall from 7,400 before you start thinking of paying dividends?

Saurabh Chawla

Honestly, I think the first step is to have from a GAL perspective, the requisite free cash coming from at least three streams of business. One is Hyderabad, which is already giving dividends; two is robust growth of our non-aero business, which is already happening and you can see it; and the third is also dividends to start flowing from Delhi Airport.

We expect dividends to start coming from Delhi Airport in next 2 years as Delhi Airport's own standalone balance sheet becomes positive. It's already started to generate free cash, and hence, in 2 years' time, it should be ready to start giving dividends to GAL, it's 74% shareholder.

That is the plan right now. Covenants are not there.

Covenants are basically our own. Our own covenants are that we need to keep a net debt to EBITDA at a reasonable level.

We are very comfortable for a growth company like ours, which is very capital-intensive in nature, to have a net debt to EBITDA multiple of about 4

Aditya Mongia

to 4.5, and

Saurabh Chawla

we will achieve that much ahead of the time period when dividends are expected to be declared. That's how we are moving forward.

Aditya Mongia

Understood. Actually, just a few clarifications from my side and then I'll get back into the queue.

When GAL is increasing their debt numbers, see, I can see GAL at standalone level now making a PAT that is positive even if I don't assume dividends, which is commendable, where things are, but still GAL is borrowing more and more. Where is this money kind of going in right now?

Saurabh Chawla

There is no borrowing, Aditya. Where is the borrowing more and more?

Which year are you looking at?

Aditya Mongia

300 GAL standalone has added 300 crores, right, to net debt Q-on-Q. That's where the question is coming.

Saurabh Chawla

We have not added any debt in Q1. What number are you looking at?

GRK Babu

One second. Aditya, if I may come in, it is basically because we are reporting the net debt.

There is a reduction of cash, and hence, you are looking at the net debt number slightly moving up. It's a reduction of cash which was available in our books as of year-end.

Aditya Mongia

Essentially, the question is where is the cash going? Is it going into your upcoming airports or is there another under-evaluated question?

Saurabh Chawla

One, there are no upcoming airports. No,

GRK Babu

no. The cash has come down because we have made two investments.

One is that since Nagpur Airport has been taken over, as per the concession agreement, you have to make a minimum investment of INR 158 crore. That investment has been done.

The second one is we have also made investment into GCLA, GMR Cargo and Logistic Company, about INR 100 crore. These are all the investments have been made out of the cash available, but debt has not gone up.

Aditya Mongia

Understood. Last and final question, Goa has two parts, aero and non-aero.

The aero per pax is a very decent number this quarter. If you can explain that.

Secondly, we would have anticipated that the non-aero per pax starts showing good growth trends, which are yet not visible. Those are the last two parts that I thought I'll take your views on.

Actually,

GRK Babu

another thing is in continuing with GAL, we have also made investment of INR 250 crore in cargo business as a deposit we are going to DIAL. That also depleted our cash in GAL.

There are three investments we made. Coming to the Goa, since we have withdrawn all the incentives given to the airlines, that is the reason why even though traffic has come down, the aero revenues have gone up.

That is the reason. I think Saurabh has already explained during his

Saurabh Chawla

opening remarks

GRK Babu

that we have withdrawn all the incentives which we have given to the airlines, which was about almost INR 170 crore last year. Because of that, despite the fact traffic has come down, the revenues have gone up.

Aditya Mongia

Any comments on non-aero Goa, how to think through it incrementally, since the numbers are still kind of sluggish over here, not improving meaningfully?

Rajesh Arora

Non-aero, if you would have seen, both SPP and IPP have gone up. In fact, SPP has gone up by almost 24% pure-play non-aero commercial SPP, and this was primarily driven by the new liquor retail store which got opened last year after June.

As we have been communicating consistently, we look at on a more sustained basis about 7% to 8% kind of SPP growth

GRK Babu

on a very sustained basis, and overall non-aero income going up by about 14% to 15% depending upon the traffic growth of about 7% to 8%. That's the, I would say, a more long-term consistent number, I would say.

Saurabh Chawla

Aditya, basically, if you look at it, the revenues of non-aero have come down in the first quarter mainly because the traffic has come down. The traffic in the 1.59 million to 1.2 million it has come down.

That impact is there on non-aero income, whereas aero income has gone up because we have withdrawn all the incentives. As Rajesh said that, there is spend per passenger, income per passenger actually has gone up in case of the Goa.

Aditya Mongia

Understood. I'll get back into the queue, ma'am.

Thank you for taking all my questions here.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Anshu Dayani from Macquarie.

Please go ahead.

Anshu Dayani

Hello? Hi.

Thank you for the opportunity. Two questions on the platform adjacencies.

If you look at car parking margins, they've been pretty volatile. It's small, I know, but would want to understand better on that.

In terms of Delhi duty-free, we've seen the spend per passenger going up. Is there any mix change if you could help us with the current mix at the duty-free?

The area also, the physical space at Delhi duty-free, also, will the space be expanded at Delhi duty-free or how do we look at the retail area at the Delhi duty-free business?

Amit Jain

Sure. In terms of Delhi duty-free, currently we are looking at expanding the space by another 400 to 500 square meters.

That's on the arrival side. That should be available, I would say, by end of this calendar year.

In terms of SPP growth in Delhi, which is about 7% to 8%, and this is in line with what the target we have taken it for ourselves. Broadly, that's on Delhi.

Hyderabad, though you've not asked about Hyderabad, but Hyderabad we have recently expanded our departure area from 400 to 1,300 square meters. The benefit of that we'll start seeing in the coming quarters.

With that expanded area, we'll be able to broad-base our offerings. We should expect a better SPP growth in Hyderabad duty-free.

Coming back to your question on car park, I'm not too sure what is the reference point where you've seen the volatility, but the car parks SPP as well as the tariff, there has been some increase in tariff which we do it once in 3 years kind of tariff increase. That could have had some impact on the EBITDA margins if that is what you are asking.

Anshu Dayani

If I look at this quarter's margin, they've been at 24% versus the previous quarter at 30-ish percent and last year also running at 29%, 28% levels. That is where I was coming from on car.

Amit Jain

This is for Delhi car park, you're saying?

Anshu Dayani

Yes, that's right.

Amit Jain

Must be some expenses would have come back this quarter. Again, on a more sustained basis what we have seen last years on annual basis, that is the kind of EBITDA margin we'll...

Saurabh Chawla

Just 1 second, Amit, why don't you...

Rajesh Arora

Also to note that whenever you look at car park, because car park has a sticky nature of expenses, there are few expenses which are fixed in nature in terms of maintenance of car park and all. Because of that also, margin can fluctuate marginally.

Anshu Dayani

Okay. Just one more question, and this is more broader, in terms of next bidding that comes.

Also, the government has outlined the NMP2 in which Amritsar and Trichy and such airports are outlined. Would we be looking at bidding, and what is our appetite to participate in loss-making assets going forward?

Saurabh Chawla

We will surely look at bidding any new airports that come for privatization, and this we have been always alluding to over the last 3 to 4 years whenever the government has made some noises on the privatizations. Then again, if you look at our whole portfolio, these airports add less than 10% of the overall traffic, which is already there in our portfolio.

Every year, we are growing actually faster than these airports even if we were to win. Very early days in that.

We would be definitely interested if the price is right. We will bid for these airports at a very rational price, and not be in the mode of creating a portfolio which is a loss-making portfolio going forward.

It'll be a conservative, judicious bidding that we will undertake.

Anshu Dayani

Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Hem Rajesh Raval from Elara Capital.

Please go ahead.

Hem Raval

Hi. Thank you for the opportunity.

Couple of questions from my end. On the SPP increase part, what categories or product segment has the largest headroom to increase your SPP going ahead?

Rajesh Arora

SPP, when you really look at the major contributor to the airport's SPP, duty-free being the topmost, then comes retail, then comes F&B, then you have the other categories. For us, I think the headroom, I would say it is equally between duty-free, retail, and F&B.

When I say equally between these segments, retail when we are looking at the premiumization of our own offerings, that is where it creates more headroom for us. Duty-free, we all know and understand the kind of value it brings it to the overall SPP growth.

I would say it is equally between these three top categories, while there are other small contributors also there.

Hem Raval

Understood. Next question would be if you mentioned you'll be open to acquire more airports as and when available.

What would be the return threshold that would be considered as an appropriate when evaluating new airport concession versus investing in existing assets and adjacencies?

Saurabh Chawla

Adjacencies are, of course, a little higher return threshold because the nature of that business, we can target those higher returns. As far as airports are concerned, I think a number which is northward of 16%, 17% is something that is acceptable, an equity IRR.

That is something which we target. Again, there's no hard-and-fast rule because there could be airports which offer much higher potential of growth, and in order to acquire such an asset into our portfolio, we may agree to a slightly higher price to pay in the initial years, and then capture the growth over the next 60-odd years as and when those traffic starts to emerge.

There are airports which have an embedded opportunity, and it is only now for us to see how our forecast is in our consultation with the airlines and also the economic footprint that that airport serves. That's the way we look at it.

Hem Raval

Understood. I think that's it from my side.

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Karthik Chellappa from Indus Capital.

Please go ahead.

Karthik Chellappa

Yeah. Thank you for the opportunity again, sir.

I just have two follow-ups. The first is on Delhi Airport, if I were to look at our non-aero revenues split, what exactly gets classified under others, because that ratio is now 18%, and I'm noticing that steadily that has actually been somewhat inching up.

It used to be about 15%, 16%, has now become 18. I'm just curious to see what all kinds of non-aero revenue gets classified there.

Saurabh Chawla

Non-aero revenue consisting of...

Rajesh Arora

Within the category of others, which non-aeros are flowing there? I think that's Kartik's question.

Saurabh Chawla

Basically, all the wraps, all other others. No,

Rajesh Arora

no. You are talking about the non-aero income, or you are talking about others?

Karthik Chellappa

Slide 38, non-aero revenue breakup, there is one category called others, which is now 18% and that has actually inched up from a 15%, 16% level in the last several quarters. I'm just curious to understand what exactly goes under others.

Saurabh Chawla

Just 1 second, Karthik. Just let us...

Karthik Chellappa

Sure, sure. You can take it offline also if it's okay.

I have no issues. I was just curious to see whether you had it readily with you.

Saurabh Chawla

Space rental... What is this breakup?

There are so many small items like flight catering, car rentals, and some other like wrapping of the bags, so many other like ATMs. Small businesses will be there, which are all combined under others in case of the non-aero.

Karthik Chellappa

The increase in the ratio to 18% is pretty much organic, basically. It's just that they've been growing fast of a lower base.

Is that how we should read it?

Saurabh Chawla

No, maybe some other additional, for example, some advertisement like cars they advertised in the terminal, suddenly you may get in 1 quarter additional revenue, and which is grouped under others. Which is not seasonal, maybe some seasonal business must have got it, then it will be grouped under that.

Karthik Chellappa

Excellent. My last question, sir, is just one data point.

If I were to look at your duty-free revenue for both Delhi and Hyderabad on a year-on-year basis, would you be able to share what is the percentage of passengers who generated duty-free revenue for you?

Saurabh Chawla

That's called penetration you are talking about it.

Karthik Chellappa

Yes, exactly. On a year-on-year basis, I'm just curious to see how that has changed.

Rajesh Arora

The penetration generally, in duty-free business, will be about 14% or so in Delhi. Hyderabad will be about 11% to 12% kind of penetration.

That generally is as we have seen the trend in the last few years. That's for the international

Karthik Chellappa

traffic. The 14% will be what a year ago?

First quarter 2026, this 14% would have been what percentage? Similar.

Rajesh Arora

It should be on the similar lines. Only thing is, like Goa, if you see, because of the stoppage of Gatwick flight, it may have had some impact in terms of penetration, but generally this is the trend we have seen all across.

Not much of variation between the quarters.

Karthik Chellappa

This is very helpful. Thank you, sir.

Thank you very much, and wish you all the very best.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Prateek Kumar from Jefferies.

Please go ahead.

Prateek Kumar

Thank you for the opportunity again. I have few follow-up questions.

Firstly, sir, how do we see consolidated capex for FY 2027 and '28, and could you provide breakup of key projects and the broad scope of planned capex?

GRK Babu

There is no capex planned. Basically, we got only operational capex.

The estimated operational capex or maintenance capex, we call it, between the Delhi and Hyderabad maybe around INR 1,500 to 1,600 crore for the full financial year. We may also incur capex in Nagpur for the refurbishment, which could be in the range of INR 250 to 300 crore.

Prateek Kumar

Consol capex for FY 2027, including real estate capex, could be closer to 2,500 crores for FY 2027?

Saurabh Chawla

You can take it. No, no, no.

You see, like GRK garu said, the operational capex is about 1,500-odd crores. Another 250-odd crores is the capex for refurbishment at Nagpur, about 1,800, 1,900 crores.

The real estate capex, the Building 5 which is currently under construction, is actually getting completed within the current fiscal year. Maybe about 50 or 100 crores more that may go, oh sorry, 200 crores may go.

In total about 2,000-odd crores is a number that you can assume for the full fiscal 2027.

Prateek Kumar

Sure. Do we have any update on HRAB case, regulatory decision timing or dates for the Delhi Airport?

Rajesh Arora

The hearings are happening now in the Supreme Court. The appellate hearings are happening, and then the turn will come.

Most probably, maybe should be settled in the next 3 to 6 months.

Prateek Kumar

Okay. Last question, while FY 2026 performance of the company was significantly boosted by significant scale-up in platform revenues added by Delhi Duty Free and cargo business integrations, how do we see or what kind of new meaningful opportunities which may get added to platform, which can help in the run rate of business growth continuing into next few years?

Saurabh Chawla

I can't really predict, Prateek, as to what happens from an inorganic perspective that gets added on. What will surely come is addition of Bhogapuram non-aero.

There'll be a small addition that will come at Nagpur non-aero. I would consider them as now organic in nature because they're part of our portfolio.

Having said that, the business development teams are looking at many such opportunities in the region. As I've already highlighted in the past, non-aero capital-light opportunities is a focus area for us, whether it is domestic or international, whether it is Middle East or Southeast Asia.

That is something that we are definitely interested. These are again very lumpy, success-driven.

Focus is there. On an organic basis, I think the business will grow at about 15% to 18% on a secular basis.

That is something that we've already highlighted. You can assume 15% for sure.

In good years, once the traffic starts to improve, 18% is also not very far away.

Prateek Kumar

Thank you, sir. These are my questions, and all the best.

Operator

Thank you. We take the next question from the line of Aditya Mongia from Kotak Institutional Equities.

Please go ahead.

Aditya Mongia

Sir, thank you for the follow-on opportunity. A couple of more questions from my side.

A, on real estate, whatever you are going to monetize in fiscal '28, could you give us a sense of what's be the investment size that you have gone from your side, and B, what could be the quantum that you can reap in fiscal '28 against that?

Rajesh Arora

1 second. I'll ask Aman to just respond to it.

This is a 1 million square feet of commercial office development, which is underway. Aman, what is the capital cost of that, and what is the opportunity 3 years or 2 years down the road on the monetization of it, what is the value?

Just 1 second.

Aditya Mongia

Sure, thanks.

Rajesh Arora

The leasable area of the building is about 650,000 square feet. We expect to achieve average rental for this building upwards of INR 240.

Accordingly, I think the value kind of derived from that, the current market caps are in the 7.5% to 8% range. I expect to get that value.

Aditya Mongia

What will be the investment against this quantum that you would be ending up doing maybe by early FY '27 when it is complete?

Saurabh Chawla

Our construction hard and soft cost budget is INR 450 crores. There are some additional manpower costs that maybe take it up to about INR 500 crores.

Aditya Mongia

This monetization can be assumed to happen in fiscal 2028 or should we think of fiscal 2029?

Saurabh Chawla

I think fiscal 2028 is a reasonable estimate.

Aditya Mongia

Okay. The second list of questions I had was more at a broad portfolio level, and thanks for sharing the non-aero per pax.

Wanted to focus a little bit more on the passengers' spending patterns. Could you give us a sense of, let's say, against 3 crore passengers that would have come for this quarter, how many transactions would have happened by those passengers?

It just gives us a sense of penetration in a different manner. Okay.

One passenger may be doing more than one transaction as well, that's fine, but some sense of number of transactions against 3 crore passengers that have happened for the quarter, and what is the average spendings that happens per transaction?

Rajesh Arora

Aditya, this penetration, it varies from category to category. As I've just mentioned in my one of the previous questions, the penetration in case of, say, Delhi duty-free is in the range of about 14%.

Hyderabad is 11% to 12%. When you go to F&B, if we talk about the broader spectrum of non-aero, when you go to F&B, it will have a different set of penetration.

It varies from category to category. If I can know your specific question that what do you want to understand from that, I can answer it more specifically about it.

Or maybe we can do it offline along with Amit if needed, Aditya, if you want to go slightly deeper into that.

Aditya Mongia

Understood. No, as in I'll just give you a sense of what I'm asking.

If it can come in the presentation, even that would be great from next time onwards. Just a sense of how many transactions are happening and the per-transaction value for the quarter.

It'll be a mix of things, I get that, but it'll give us a sense of things happening.

Rajesh Arora

Sure. Aditya, the way to look at this, we look at SPP or sales per pax, which takes into consideration the two components.

One is the average ticket value, what is the amount you are spending, and the penetration. A combination of that gives you the SPP.

Our focus generally is on SPP. The strategy to grow SPP could be based on improving penetration or increasing ATV, that depends on how do you want to look at the whole thing.

Our focus is to keep growing the SPP year-on-year, and which I have been saying, say, in the range of about 7% to 8% is our target.

Aditya Mongia

Understood. That will be all from my side.

Thank you for your responses.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as there are no further questions from the participants, I would now hand the conference over to Mr.

Saurabh Chawla for his closing comments.

Saurabh Chawla

Thank you. Thank you everybody for joining this call at an early hour today.

We are happy to engage with you offline, and the IR team awaits any of your specific questions that you may have. We'll be happy to answer.

Thank you so much and have a wonderful day. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you, sir. On behalf of GMR Airports Limited, that concludes this conference call.

Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines.