# AAI profit drops 9.8% to ₹6,522 crore in FY26 2026-08-18T00:11:31+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Airports Authority of India's net profit fell 9.8 per cent to ₹6,522.37 crore in FY2025-26 from ₹7,233.28 crore the previous year, The Hindu Businessline reports. Total revenue edged down to ₹20,526.46 crore from ₹20,648.25 crore, while expenses rose 6.34 per cent to ₹11,689.36 crore. Revenue from airport leases, including public-private partnership airports, dropped sharply to ₹5,824.99 crore from ₹7,376.82 crore. The fall in profit also reflects an exceptional item of ₹254.54 crore booked in connection with alleged employee embezzlement at Dehradun and Jaipur airports. Employee benefit costs rose to ₹4,873.69 crore, operating expenses to ₹2,666.43 crore, and administrative costs to ₹1,126.21 crore. AAI declared a total dividend of ₹1,956.71 crore to the central government, 30 per cent of PAT. It transferred ₹1,826.26 crore to the Airport Development Reserve and ₹2,739.40 crore to the General Reserve. The decline comes after PAT had jumped 55.5 per cent in FY2024-25. ## Coverage - thehindubusinessline.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Airports Authority of India, Dehradun, Jaipur Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/aai-profit-drops-9-8-to-rs6522-crore-in-fy26/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/aai-profit-drops-9-8-to-rs6522-crore-in-fy26/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/