Flight delays at Mumbai may soon be a thing of the past

Mumbai: Flight delays at Mumbai may soon be reduced, as airport officials along with airlines and air traffic controllers are planning a slew of measures to reduce congestion and quicken movement.
Mumbai airport sees about 700 flight movements each day and during peak hours, planes hold on ground or air for up to 45 minutes, burning expensive aviation turbine fuel.
Officials from various airlines, the Mumbai airport and the International Air Transport Association have come together and created an operational safety and capacity enhancement group, which recently met to find a solution to these problems.
According to airport sources, the plan is to reduce runway occupancy for landing aircraft and minimise delays in taxiing and parking of aircraft at designated bays. “It takes about a minute for an aircraft to vacate the runway after touchdown. If we can reduce this time by 5-10 seconds, we will be able to save a considerable amount of time,” an airport official said.
29/03/10 Aneesh Phadnis/Mumbai Mirror

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Categories: Airports Mar 2010