Finally, Jammu airport gets 8,000-ft long runway
After a wait of over a decade, the Jammu airport, one of the critical airports in the country, finally got 8,000ft-long runway operational on Friday with Indigo flight 6E-137 being the first to be traversing through the newly constructed stretch amid a water canon salute by the Indian Air Force (IAF).
“The operationalisation of the extended portion of runway has been successfully done at the joint user airfield of the IAF and Airports Authority of India (AAI) at Jammu,” said Sanjeev Kumar Garg, Jammu airport director.
The existing runway, which was 6,700ft long, was extended and the revised stretch of runway is now 8,000 ft, he added.
