Thursday, October 24, 2019

MIA introduces slew of safety measures for passengers, aircraft

Mangaluru: In a move that will vastly enhance safety standards at Mangalore International Airport (MIA), Airports Authority of India (AAI) has taken up phase II work of parallel taxiway and widening of runway safety basic strip area. Incidentally, phase I work on the parallel taxiway measuring around 550 metres each, in two stretches, was completed in December 2016, and work on the balance 1,350 metres of this taxiway is presently under way.
Completion of the work will ensure that the turnaround time for aircraft landing and taking off from MIA will be vastly reduced, says V V Rao, airport director, MIA. With reduced occupancy time of the active runway, passengers too will save on time with timely arrivals and take-offs, Rao told TOI, adding even the airlines will save on pricey aviation turbine fuel that they would otherwise have to use for taxiing and idling purposes.
The move to double the runway safety basic strip area from the current width of 75metres, from the centre of the runway, will also ensure greater safety for aircraft using the airport. This basic strip area is usually an unpaved area flanking the main runway, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, joint general manager (engineering-civil), MIA, said. AAI needs 33 acres on the South (Adyapady) side of the runway to complete the work to a length of 2,500 metres, he said.
24/10/19 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
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