Flight movements at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport is set to go beyond 1,500 flights per day by May, a top Delhi International Airport executive has said.
The airport operator is undertaking high-intensity runway operation, which could increase current aircraft movements by 15% to 1515 each day. The country’s busiest airport handles 1,324 flight movements currently.
“We have got capacity constraint on both air side and terminal side. Currently, 25% of Delhi’s air space is a no-fly zone due to VIP areas, Hindon airbase. We are training the ATC (air traffic controller) for the high-intensity runaway operation to tackle air side capacity constraint. The target is to increase our capacity by 200 flight movements in the next one-two months,” DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar said at the CII Aviation Conclave 2019.
