For a country of India’s size, keeping over a third of its airspace reserved for defence came at the cost of commercial flight.
While skirting such airspace meant commercial airlines ended up using more fuel given the flight path wasn’t the shortest passage between two airports, passengers had to bear with longer flying times.
Therefore, the government’s plan to implement Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA)—it will allow commercial flights through defence airspace after prior permission—by the end of this year is a welcome move.
The first-ever airspace management cell, to be constituted with representation from both the defence and the civil aviation ministries, the defence forces and commercial airlines, will coordinate such allocation of restricted flying space.
Already, 25 temporary segregated areas and temporary reserved areas have been established, with 10 conditional air routes passing through them.
Apart from bringing down fuel usage by almost 15% per flight, as per an Economic Times report, and Indian civil aviation’s carbon foot print—emissions were over 15 million tons in 2013, as per the DGCA—this will also mean more economical flying along these routes.Countries like the US, the UK and Belgium have all successfully implemented FUA.
17/08/16 Financial Express
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While skirting such airspace meant commercial airlines ended up using more fuel given the flight path wasn’t the shortest passage between two airports, passengers had to bear with longer flying times.
Therefore, the government’s plan to implement Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA)—it will allow commercial flights through defence airspace after prior permission—by the end of this year is a welcome move.
The first-ever airspace management cell, to be constituted with representation from both the defence and the civil aviation ministries, the defence forces and commercial airlines, will coordinate such allocation of restricted flying space.
Already, 25 temporary segregated areas and temporary reserved areas have been established, with 10 conditional air routes passing through them.
Apart from bringing down fuel usage by almost 15% per flight, as per an Economic Times report, and Indian civil aviation’s carbon foot print—emissions were over 15 million tons in 2013, as per the DGCA—this will also mean more economical flying along these routes.Countries like the US, the UK and Belgium have all successfully implemented FUA.
17/08/16 Financial Express
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