Chennai bosses over southern skies

Chennai: For the first time in the country, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has embarked on a centralised air traffic control with Chennai being vested with the authority to manage the entire southern airspace due to which all aircraft flying above 26,000 feet will be controlled by air traffic managers in the metropolis.
The integrated system is all set to take off soon, said an AAI official.
“Based on the success of this pilot project, we will replicate it in the other three metros,’’ he added. In future, AAI would control the entire Indian airspace from a single facility, he added.
An aviation expert told this newspaper that controlling the airspace from a single location would increase efficiency of air traffic management and help operators economically.
“In the current system, we don’t know the traffic operated by subsequent airspace. So, we need to take decisions at the final moment and it slows down the traffic, leading to congestion.”
27/03/11 S. Sujatha/Deccan Chronicle

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Categories: Airports Mar 2011, New Mar 2011