NEW DELHI: Despite assurances from the authorities, rances from the authorities, there shall be no relief from overcrowding at IGI's domestic terminal, nor will the airport's flight frequency move up this wintry weather.
The infra crunch at India's busiest airport used to be supposed to have eased in the upcoming season, with its 3 runways handling six more flights every hour and the jam-packed Terminal 1 getting some breathing area. But nor is runway capacity expanding as promised nor are one-third flights moving from T1 in a rush.
The minutes of conferences prepared through Airports Authority of India on slot allocation this wintry weather displays IGIA's runways will maintain best 67 flights an hour, 62 agenda and 5 are VVIP, defence and constitution flights. Aviation authorities had promised that IGIA's 3 runways will maintain 73 flights an hour this wintry weather. This used to be supposed to lead to six-seven more flights an hour from 6am to 11pm, meaning an build up of virtually 120 flights a day -leading to more choice for flyers via greater frequencies and new destinations being attached to Delhi.
"Maximum throughout hourly capacity (saturation capacity) for mix mode operation when all three runways are available at IGIA: Global (arrival + departure) capacity is 75 movements (70 schedule + 5 non schedule).(But) Practical hourly capacity (to be considered for allocation of slots) at IGIA: Global (arrival + departure) capacity is 67 (62 schedule + 5 non-schedule)," the AAI minutes state. On its part, Delhi Inter national Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL) mentioned this wintry weather its peak runway capacity will contact 73 aircraft movements. "This winter we will operate under a profiled schedule which includes a peak hour of 73 scheduled operations... to maximise available scheduled slots based on airline demand and the capacity of the airport.During winter 2016, the airport averaged 1,170 scheduled slots per day and averaged 1,230 scheduled during summer 2017. During the winter of 2017, the airport will average more than 1,300 scheduled slots per day ," a DIAL spokesman mentioned.
But airways mentioned the height of 73 shall be reached only for a few hours. The AAI minutes quote SpiceJet's Debashis Saha as saying that there used to be "no increase in the practical runway capacity at Delhi for winter 2017. Airlines would not be able to expand their operations or even maintain their existing slots (of summer 2017) as increase in movements at Delhi has been in only 1-2 hours in the entire day . Also this would severely restrict airlines' flexibility of changingamending slots. The upcoming runway closure in summer 2018 would see a further drop in the hourly movements at IGIA."
Apart from endured runway woes, the terminal capacity crunch can even proceed this wintry weather with one-third flights from T1 now not moving to T2 from Sunday .Due to this, T1 will proceed to remain choked with best marginal relief coming from GoAir moving to T2 from October 29.
The infra crunch at India's busiest airport used to be supposed to have eased in the upcoming season, with its 3 runways handling six more flights every hour and the jam-packed Terminal 1 getting some breathing area. But nor is runway capacity expanding as promised nor are one-third flights moving from T1 in a rush.
The minutes of conferences prepared through Airports Authority of India on slot allocation this wintry weather displays IGIA's runways will maintain best 67 flights an hour, 62 agenda and 5 are VVIP, defence and constitution flights. Aviation authorities had promised that IGIA's 3 runways will maintain 73 flights an hour this wintry weather. This used to be supposed to lead to six-seven more flights an hour from 6am to 11pm, meaning an build up of virtually 120 flights a day -leading to more choice for flyers via greater frequencies and new destinations being attached to Delhi.
"Maximum throughout hourly capacity (saturation capacity) for mix mode operation when all three runways are available at IGIA: Global (arrival + departure) capacity is 75 movements (70 schedule + 5 non schedule).(But) Practical hourly capacity (to be considered for allocation of slots) at IGIA: Global (arrival + departure) capacity is 67 (62 schedule + 5 non-schedule)," the AAI minutes state. On its part, Delhi Inter national Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL) mentioned this wintry weather its peak runway capacity will contact 73 aircraft movements. "This winter we will operate under a profiled schedule which includes a peak hour of 73 scheduled operations... to maximise available scheduled slots based on airline demand and the capacity of the airport.During winter 2016, the airport averaged 1,170 scheduled slots per day and averaged 1,230 scheduled during summer 2017. During the winter of 2017, the airport will average more than 1,300 scheduled slots per day ," a DIAL spokesman mentioned.
But airways mentioned the height of 73 shall be reached only for a few hours. The AAI minutes quote SpiceJet's Debashis Saha as saying that there used to be "no increase in the practical runway capacity at Delhi for winter 2017. Airlines would not be able to expand their operations or even maintain their existing slots (of summer 2017) as increase in movements at Delhi has been in only 1-2 hours in the entire day . Also this would severely restrict airlines' flexibility of changingamending slots. The upcoming runway closure in summer 2018 would see a further drop in the hourly movements at IGIA."
Apart from endured runway woes, the terminal capacity crunch can even proceed this wintry weather with one-third flights from T1 now not moving to T2 from Sunday .Due to this, T1 will proceed to remain choked with best marginal relief coming from GoAir moving to T2 from October 29.
No relief from IGI crowding, flight crunch this winter
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October 27, 2017
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