Elevated taxiway at Delhi airport to be completed by December 2022

New Delhi: An elevated cross taxiway that will help cut taxiing time and save fuel at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport will be ready by December 2022, the airport operator said on Wednesday.

Desribing it as India’s first ever elevated taxiway, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said 60% work on the facility has been completed. Once the new corridor is commissioned, the taxiing distance for aircrafts at Delhi airport will go down from the current 9km to 2km as the facility will allow planes to go straight towards Terminal 1 from the runway or vice-versa instead of going around runway 11/29.

Currently, after landing at runway 29/11 or to take-off from there, an aircraft has to cover a distance of about 9km.