Delhi seeks Lengpui airport upgrade

Silchar: The Union civil aviation ministry has sought to improve infrastructure at Lengpui airport near Aizawl and make it more “passenger friendly” after the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) declared the airport “critical” in terms of runway length.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) sources in Aizawl yesterday said the DGCA, the country’s aviation regulator agency, had declared the Lengpui airport one of the 11 “critical” airports as the 8,200-feet “tabletop” runway was “short of expected length” and listed its technical facilities as “not enough”.
The airport, commissioned in 1998 at a cost of Rs 140 crore, is under the control of the Mizoram government, which has of late proposed to hand it over to the Union civil aviation ministry because of escalating maintenance costs, according to the sources.
The aviation regulator agency, however, clarified that there was nothing to worry about the Lengpui airport as of now and its possible improvement in the future was merely “a reassurance drive”.
The agency will soon rush teams of technocrats and specialists to inspect these “critical” airports and review their functioning.
26/06/10 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jun 2010