New Delhi:By January-end, delays at IGI airport due to fog may finally come down. The directorate general of civil aviation has asked the Met department to install a third runway visual range machine on the secondary runway that will enable flights to depart from it when visibility falls. The airport has three runways but during dense fog, the new runway invariably cannot be used due to zero visibility and the secondary runway is not equipped to handle any operations. This leaves only the main runway for handling all operations.
Arun Mishra, director general DGCA said that the decision was taken keeping in mind that a single runway was not sufficient to meet the airport's requirement which was leading to unnecessary delays during fog. "We have asked the Met department to install an RVR in the middle of the secondary runway. It already has it on its two ends. With this, flights will be able to take off from it whenever the new runway is rendered unusable in dense fog and reduce the load on the main runway," he said.
26/12/12 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India
