Mumbai: With Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) running at capacity and Mumbai facing an aerial impasse in terms of growth of connectivity, the state government has been forced to dust off a six-year-old proposal of extending Juhu airport's runway into the sea. For years, authorities have been hoping—without any success —to divert small planes, charters and private jets to Juhu by extending the runway and free up valuable slot at the city airport for bigger passenger jets.
"We have recently appointed a consultant to study the feasibility of extending Juhu runway into the sea. (On the land side), there are slums," Airports Authority of India chairman Guruprasad Mahapatra said on Tuesday.
Freeing up slum land is next to impossible and the state has been struggling to do so at CSIA too as the dwellings there have been identified as a serious security threat. But successive governments have failed to do so.
"We are seeing if non-scheduled and private planes can operate from Juhu. We hope to get the report soon so that some decision can be taken," said Mohapatra, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer who took over as AAI chief two months back.
21/09/16 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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"We have recently appointed a consultant to study the feasibility of extending Juhu runway into the sea. (On the land side), there are slums," Airports Authority of India chairman Guruprasad Mahapatra said on Tuesday.
Freeing up slum land is next to impossible and the state has been struggling to do so at CSIA too as the dwellings there have been identified as a serious security threat. But successive governments have failed to do so.
"We are seeing if non-scheduled and private planes can operate from Juhu. We hope to get the report soon so that some decision can be taken," said Mohapatra, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer who took over as AAI chief two months back.
21/09/16 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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