Delhi airport to get third runway in 2008

The board of directors for Airports Authority of India (AAI) has agreed to build a third runway at Delhi airport in response to two years of growing congestion at the privately controlled and operated airport.
The Rs142 crore runway, including other infrastructure that goes along with it, will be ready by the end of June 2008, a senior AAI official said, asking not to be quoted. Delhi’s airport, along with Mumbai’s, spent most of its peak hours in 2006 dealing with delays up to an hour each because of crowded runways and taxiways as total aircraft movements reached 35 an hour.
AAI commissioned and built three new taxiways on one of the two existing runways, which made it possible to have planes empty the runways sooner on landing. That brought the delays down to under 20 minutes, said the official, and as long as private aircraft and helicopters continue to use the airport, that is about as low as the delays are likely to get.
05/07/07 Mehul Srivastava/Livemint

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Categories: Airports Jul 2007