Mangaluru: In a move that will speed up aircraft movement - departure and arrival - from Mangaluru International Airport at Kenjar near here, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has approved the extension of taxiway under construction to length of 2,400 metres long. Taxiway is stretch or the track connecting the runway with the apron (parking stand for aircraft) in the terminal building. Aircraft use the taxiway for entry and exit from the parking stand to the runway.
The additional taxiway being built at the airport since August 2014 is 1,200 metres long and 23 metres wide. Its work is expected to be completed by next two months. The AAI board has now agreed and approved to extend the taxiway further by another 1,200 metres to make it a 2,400 metres long taxiway. The current first phase work under progress is being implemented at a cost of Rs. 40 crore and second phase will cost Rs 106 crore as a deep valley has to be filled.
The valley is about 35 metres deep. The additional taxiway particularly helps the aircraft in saving time in the entry and exit from parking stand to the runway. As of now, aircrafts that are ready to take off have to wait for 10 -15 minutes if their departure timings clashed with a flight that is scheduled to land, due to procedures involved and it has to wait till the arriving plane completes its course on the runway and rolls into the apron.
15/07/16 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
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The additional taxiway being built at the airport since August 2014 is 1,200 metres long and 23 metres wide. Its work is expected to be completed by next two months. The AAI board has now agreed and approved to extend the taxiway further by another 1,200 metres to make it a 2,400 metres long taxiway. The current first phase work under progress is being implemented at a cost of Rs. 40 crore and second phase will cost Rs 106 crore as a deep valley has to be filled.
The valley is about 35 metres deep. The additional taxiway particularly helps the aircraft in saving time in the entry and exit from parking stand to the runway. As of now, aircrafts that are ready to take off have to wait for 10 -15 minutes if their departure timings clashed with a flight that is scheduled to land, due to procedures involved and it has to wait till the arriving plane completes its course on the runway and rolls into the apron.
15/07/16 Jaideep Shenoy/Times of India
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