Mumbai: After Jet Airways and Spicejet, Air India Express has become the third airline operator to complete trials for
using Taxibot at the Indira Gandhi International airport on Monday.
The trails were carried out from 8 am to 10 am at the airport in the presence of senior officials of Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Delhi International Airport Ltd, the Air traffic Control and KSU Aviation Pvt Ltd, which brought taxibots to India earlier this year.
The Air India Express Boeing 737-800 NG series aircraft taxied from Apron 3 towards Runway 29 and completed the pre-defined scenarios successfully and returned to the bay at the IGI Airport. With Air India Express successfully completing trials, all the major Boeing operators in India will now be using taxibots as an alternate taxiing solution at airports where this service is available.
Airbus has notified that it shall shortly be releasing a procedure-based use of the taxibot, which does not require any technical modification to the aircraft. Among Airbus operators, Indigo airline, which has the largest fleet of Airbus aircraft, has completed taxibot trials in February, and Vistara and Air Asia are also scheduled to undergo trials.
“Each taxiing event of about 15 minutes with Taxibot attached saves about 200 litres of Aviation Turbine Fuel. In addition to this, it saves engine life plus emission of about 650 Kgs of CO2,” said Sanjay Bahadur, Head Corporate Communication & Compliance, KSU Aviation Pvt Ltd.
18/06/19 Satish Nandagaonkar/Mumbai Mirror
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The trails were carried out from 8 am to 10 am at the airport in the presence of senior officials of Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Delhi International Airport Ltd, the Air traffic Control and KSU Aviation Pvt Ltd, which brought taxibots to India earlier this year.
The Air India Express Boeing 737-800 NG series aircraft taxied from Apron 3 towards Runway 29 and completed the pre-defined scenarios successfully and returned to the bay at the IGI Airport. With Air India Express successfully completing trials, all the major Boeing operators in India will now be using taxibots as an alternate taxiing solution at airports where this service is available.
Airbus has notified that it shall shortly be releasing a procedure-based use of the taxibot, which does not require any technical modification to the aircraft. Among Airbus operators, Indigo airline, which has the largest fleet of Airbus aircraft, has completed taxibot trials in February, and Vistara and Air Asia are also scheduled to undergo trials.
“Each taxiing event of about 15 minutes with Taxibot attached saves about 200 litres of Aviation Turbine Fuel. In addition to this, it saves engine life plus emission of about 650 Kgs of CO2,” said Sanjay Bahadur, Head Corporate Communication & Compliance, KSU Aviation Pvt Ltd.
18/06/19 Satish Nandagaonkar/Mumbai Mirror
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