Jumbo flights to land at Patna airport

Patna: The scare is over for now. Jumbo aircraft will land and take-off from the Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport.
The state government has complied with the directorate-general of civil aviation’s (DGCA’s) directive to prune 249 trees on the Patna zoo premises.
A day earlier, cabinet co-ordination department principal secretary Afzal Amanullah visited Delhi and apprised the director-general of civil aviation, Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman and Union civil aviation secretary of the steps being taken by the state government to remove the obstacles in the approach funnel.
Amanullah told the officials that the state government would meet most of the conditions put forth by the DGCA in the next six-seven months.
The specifications include pruning of about 3,700 trees located inside and outside the Patna zoo, removal of street light poles and advertisement boards on roads outside the Patna airport and demolition of parts of buildings on the north-east side of the airport.
Amanullah made it clear to the officials that reducing the height of the secretariat tower clock by 11.5 metre was a bit difficult task as it was a heritage building.
31/08/10 The Telegraph

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Categories: airports Sep 2010