Clearing the ground for takeoff at Mumbai airport

In a move to decongest the Mumbai airport, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is mulling over regulating the air traffic movement (ATM) by implementing the air traffic flow management system (ATFMS). Simply put the ATFMS is designed to meter traffic to taxed capacity resources, in this case the congested metro airports of Mumbai and Delhi.
For understanding, the ATFMS involves two principal processes, one involving the air traffic control for the purposes of tactical safety separations and the other, of the traffic flow management, a process that meters arrival at the capacity constrained airports.
To achieve this, the air traffic control will assign slots to the airlines through separation assurance and would regulate that separation for the prevention of collisions. Speed control for an aircraft would be a vital component and that would be assigned by the ATC.
There are a whole lot of other elements involved in the system that need to be aligned like the air navigation facilities, equipment and services, technical information and real time information or the current information on weather forecasts, congestion delays and the like.
21/04/07 Manisha Singhal/Daily News & Analysis

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