Airports Authority of India lesson on how to shut down an operational runway

Mumbai: The audacious move by a group of officials from Airports Authority of India (AAI) and ministry of civil aviation to de-commission Juhu airport's secondary runways began in May last year.
This week, Times of India had carried a report on the issue. After AAI decided to shut down the secondary runway, it started issuing no-objection certificates to builders allowing them to increase the height of the buildings that stood in the approach path of the said runway.
Juhu has two runways, a main runway and a smaller secondary runway. If Juhu airport's secondary runway 16-34, is permanently shut down, as being planned by AAI, there will be serious repercussions. ``That is because Juhu airport is located less than two kilometres away from the huge and busy Mumbai airport and runways of both these airports are almost similar in their lay-out, which in turn means that, there are norms to be adhered to for use of Juhu airport's runways,'' said a source.
07/09/12 Manju V/Times of India

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Categories: airports Sep 2012