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Govt takes steps to decongest Airports

12/11/2009 1:57:00 PM

New Delhi, Dec (EPC News): The Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel has informed Lok Sabha that the ministry that various steps have been taken up to decongest the pressure at major Airports across the country. Airport operators have initiated measures for high speed exit taxi-ways at Delhi and Mumbai airports. A parallel taxi-track has been constructed at Delhi airport by which runway occupancy time has been reduced considerably.

Delhi International Airport Ltd. has constructed third runway to accommodate more arrivals and departures at Delhi Airport. Simultaneous use of both runways at Delhi and Mumbai airports has been started during the traffic congestion period. The beginning of runway 32 and 27 have been joined by constructing a new taxi-track and beginning of runway 27 is being joined from international apron at Mumbai to reduce runway occupancy time.

AAI has already taken up the project for upgradation of 35 non-metro airports enable to handle the increased air traffic at those airports. Improved ATC procedures have been designed. Clearance Delivery Position has been established at Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad international airports to reduce R/T congestion.

Ban on general aviation aircraft during peak period at Mumbai airport has been imposed. Advance Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (ASMGCS) along with surface movement radar has been Installed and in operation at Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports. Kolkata ILS is being upgraded to CAT II ILS.

At the time of slot allocation schedule arrival and departure time are spread in such a manner that bunching should not take place resulting into delays. The number of hourly movements of flights has been optimised at Mumbai and Delhi airports as per availability of runway / terminal building capacity.

EPC News Bureau