Choked airports: US team shows way out

NEW DELHI: The US is coming to the aid of passengers fed up with hovering over choked Indian airports like Delhi and Mumbai.
In Friday, American aerospace major Boeing shared its expertise with authorities here on more effective utilization of airspace by allowing planes to safely fly closer at congested airports and enable faster touchdowns.
India has decided to start switching over to the new system by early July and in first phase it will be done at the three most congested airports at Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedebad. The actual reduction will take place once all stakeholders — pilots, ATCs and airports — are trained for the system in a few months.
Boeing’s presentation, made at the behest of DGCA and AAI, came just as an eight-member team of US’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finished its tour of India and also as an American consulting company, Maitre Corp, gave its final report on "performance based navigation" that would allow reducing separation from eight to five nautical miles between planes approaching to land at congested places.
11/05/08 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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