Facing runway crunch, future bleak for BIA

Bangalore: The Airports Authority of India (AAI), which recently said that the passenger handling capacity of Bangalore International Airport (BIA), will reach saturation level and is below international standards, came out with more damning evidence against BIA’s future operations.
According to AAI, the runway capacity of BIA is going to get saturated by 2011 and the aircraft parking bays are just sufficient for current level of operations.
The technical committee of AAI in its report to the State High Court on December 19, 2009, has focused on terminals, runway capacity, aircraft parking bays, car parking and cargo capacities of BIA.
The peak per hour runway capacity at BIA is 30 to 32 movements of aircraft as against the current peak hour demand of 25 movements per hour, so the runway will be found wanting in 2011, the AAI report says.
“The existing number of aircraft parking bays are 42 as against the current demand of 41. Therefore, the existing parking bays are just sufficient for the current level of operations.
Thirty additional parking bays are under construction and with this addition, the available parking bays will meet the demand for the next four to five years,” the report observes.
25/12/08 B Aravinda Shetty/ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports Dec 2008