No relief: Congestion, delays continue at Delhi airport

New Delhi: There seems to be no relief for passengers as air congestion and delays continued at the airport on Friday.
Around 55 per cent of domestic flights were delayed while the schedule of international flights was also affected.
After the recent incidents of near-misses, the Air Traffic Control had avoided simultaneous use of two runways on Thursday. Following directions from the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) to avoid delays and after the runway visibility improved at 10.45 am from below 2,000 metres, the practice was resumed on Friday.
Both the primary and the secondary runways are usually used from 6 am to 1 pm and then again from 4 pm to 11 pm. In the afternoon, when the air traffic is less one of the runways remains shut for maintenance.
Though both the runways were in use on Friday, the ATC was careful in giving permission to aircraft to land or take off. After drawing a lot of flak due to the near-miss incidents, it is now keeping a decent time gap between each plane.
22/12/07 Delhi Newsline

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Categories: Airports Dec 2007