Cross runway operations on trial at Chennai

Chennai: The cross runway operations on a trial basis were inaugurated at the Chennai airport on Sunday.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials said the Chennai Air Traffic Control Tower now handled on an average 329 movements per day, over 800 aircraft transit through Chennai Area Control Centre.
The volume of traffic needed some enhancement of runway capacity as well airspace capacity. This resulted in two new initiatives – cross runway operations and bifurcation of area control centre, said an officer.
At present, the operations were carried out using the main runway for both arrivals and departures, which had reached the maximum handling capacity of 25 movements an hour. Hence, a new procedure had been designed to permit the use of secondary runway for departures and the main runway for both departures and arrivals to enable the airport to handle nearly 32 movements an hour. This would result in a significant 25 per cent increase in traffic handling capacity, the officer said.
18/12/07 P.Oppili/The Hindu

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