Chennai: Airlines may continue to complain about the Metro Rail's 'incursion' into the airport premises, but the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is fine with the alignment.
The proposed Metro Rail corridor from Officers' Training Academy to the airport will pass close to the runways. While aviation experts are against allowing a partially elevated structure to cut across the approach path of runways, airlines and pilots are wary that they will have to cut down the load of aircraft to fly from the secondary runway.
"There is no problem with the Metro Rail coming near the airport," said director general of civil aviation Bharat Bhushan.
The proposed Metro line starts as an elevated one from the Officers Training Academy (OTA), and goes partially underground as it cuts across the flight approach path, nine metres inside the airport campus, parallel to the boundary wall along GST Road. As per the AAI certificate, the line can be 6.5 metres above ground, so that its height will be lesser than the existing obstacles.
Necessary adjustments would be made to ensure air safety and also to prevent the line from impacting aircraft operations on the secondary runway, said Bharat Bhushan. However, he did not elaborate on the changes that would be brought in to accomodate the project.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already given the green signal for the project following which Chennai Metro Rail floated a tender to construct the line.
05/03/11 V Ayyappan/Times of India
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