Civil Aviation Minister informs Lok Sabha on steps taken to decongest pressure at major airports in India

Mumbai: According to a PIB release, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel recently informed the Lok Sabha about various steps taken up to decongest pressure at major airports across the country. The steps include:
* Airport operators have initiated measures for high speed exit taxi-ways at Delhi and Mumbai Airports. A parallel taxi-track has been constructed at Delhi Airport by which runway occupancy time has been reduced considerably.
* Delhi International Airport Ltd. has constructed third runway to accommodate more arrivals and departures at Delhi Airport.
* Simultaneous use of both runways at Delhi and Mumbai airports has been started during the traffic congestion period.
* The beginning of runway 32 and 27 have been joined by constructing a new taxi-track and beginning of runway 27 is being joined from international apron at Mumbai to reduce runway occupancy time.
* AAI has already taken up the project for up gradation of 35 non-metro airports enable to handle the increased air traffic at those airports.
* Improved ATC procedures have been designed.
* Clearance Delivery Position has been established at Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad international airports to reduce R/T congestion.
* Ban on general aviation aircraft during peak period at Mumbai Airport has been imposed.
* Advance Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (ASMGCS) along with surface movement radar has been installed and in operation at Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad Airports.
* Kolkata ILS is being upgraded to CAT II ILS.
* At the time of slot allocation schedule arrival and departure time are spread in such a manner that bunching should not take place resulting into delays.
* The number of hourly movements of flights has been optimised at Mumbai and Delhi Airports as per availability of runway / terminal building capacity.
14/12/09 TravelBizMonitor

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Categories: Airports Dec 2009