NEW DELHI: Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) said landings had finally started on IGI Airport’s newest runway, 29R/11L, and the old warhorse airstrip, 28/10, was being closed for repair till mid-December. Another runway will be taken up for repair later, and by the next summer, all four airstrips at the Delhi airport will be fully operational, allowing them handle over 100 flights per hour.
“Arrivals on runway 29R/11L have commenced. The first flight to land on it was IndiGo from Mumbai (6E-2015) on September 9 at 3.09pm on 11L side,” a DIAL spokesperson said. This means the plane landed from the Gurgaon side, not the Vasant Vihar side, due to the changed wind direction, he added.
A delay in operationalising the Russian instrument landing system had led to a long wait for the fourth runway, commissioned on July 14, 2023, to start handling arrivals.
