Patna: Patna airport director Rajender Singh Lahauria has been invited to speak at the Passenger Terminal Expo-2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, which is being held from March 20 to 22.
"The world has many critical and constrained airports and Patna is one of them. However, working here is the most challenging experience due to a very short runway length, very few parking bays, small terminal building, the number of flights daily and the rush of passengers," Lahauria said.
"Despite all odds, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at Patna tried the best with its limited resources and space constraints to manage the situation well, keeping the well-being and safety of passengers as its first priority," he added.
The airport is counted among critical and constrained airports because it has a short runway of 2,072m.
However, the practical usable length of the runway gets reduced to 1,938m from the eastern approach path and to 1,677m from the western approach path due to various obstructions like the clock tower of the state secretariat and railway track along with its overhead high-tension electricity lines on the west.
At present, the airport has just four parking bays, but caters to 38 arrivals and 38 departures every day. Its terminal building has a capacity to accommodate just around 600 passengers at a time, including around 200 in the check-in area and 350 in the security holdup area. But more than 8,000 passengers arrive daily and the airport caters to over 30 lakh passengers annually.
"It becomes an everyday challenge for everybody working at the airport to manage the huge gathering in a small building that was constructed in 1973," Lahauria said.
The situation becomes nightmarish during winter and monsoon, when weather plays spoilsport leading to delay or cancellation of flights resulting in thousands of passengers getting stuck at the airport, which is in an area where there is no hotel nearby.
18/03/18 Dev Raj/Telegraph
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"The world has many critical and constrained airports and Patna is one of them. However, working here is the most challenging experience due to a very short runway length, very few parking bays, small terminal building, the number of flights daily and the rush of passengers," Lahauria said.
"Despite all odds, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at Patna tried the best with its limited resources and space constraints to manage the situation well, keeping the well-being and safety of passengers as its first priority," he added.
The airport is counted among critical and constrained airports because it has a short runway of 2,072m.
However, the practical usable length of the runway gets reduced to 1,938m from the eastern approach path and to 1,677m from the western approach path due to various obstructions like the clock tower of the state secretariat and railway track along with its overhead high-tension electricity lines on the west.
At present, the airport has just four parking bays, but caters to 38 arrivals and 38 departures every day. Its terminal building has a capacity to accommodate just around 600 passengers at a time, including around 200 in the check-in area and 350 in the security holdup area. But more than 8,000 passengers arrive daily and the airport caters to over 30 lakh passengers annually.
"It becomes an everyday challenge for everybody working at the airport to manage the huge gathering in a small building that was constructed in 1973," Lahauria said.
The situation becomes nightmarish during winter and monsoon, when weather plays spoilsport leading to delay or cancellation of flights resulting in thousands of passengers getting stuck at the airport, which is in an area where there is no hotel nearby.
18/03/18 Dev Raj/Telegraph
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