Flight delayed? Blame small runway at Jaipur airport

Jaipur: The Sanganer Airport at the state capital is yet to be upgraded as flights with higher capacity of passengers could not land at the airport's runway.
The airport authorities had to face embarrassment when a Boeing plane having the capacity of more than 400 passengers could not land at the airport that came to take Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.
Finally, the flight landed at Delhi airport and the Haj pilgrims were taken to Delhi from where they took the flight bound for Saudi Arabia.
The project of the Airport Authority of India to broaden the runway from 9,000 feet to 12,000 feet is yet to take off as the land is yet to be acquired by the authority.
19/10/10 NDTV.com

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Categories: airports Oct 2010