IGI resorts to mixed use of runways

New Delhi: With large scale disruptions being witnessed at the IGI Airport thanks to a massive spell of fog, Airports Authority of India ( AAI) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) were forced to change the runway usage, putting them in semi-mixed mode during a major part of the day so that passengers would not be inconvenienced.
Due to a high court order on noise pollution mitigation, the two runways — 29/11 and 28/10 — were being used for segregated operations, each handling only arrivals or departures by turn. However , with blinding fog reducing visibility and operations completely suspended for several hours, the backlog was huge and consequential delays had completely thrown schedules out of gear.
"..The main runway , 28/10, is being used for both departures and arrivals while the new runway , 29/11, is being used either for departures or for arrivals, depending on which traffic is more at a particular point of time. We are careful of not breaching the night curfew. The new measures have been put in place for only the day time," said an official.
Earlier, a high court order had said that arrivals on the new runway should be stopped completely at night so that residents of nearby areas would not get disturbed .
28/12/10 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Dec 2010