GoAir successfully tests TaxiBot at Delhi’s IGI Airport

NEW DELHI : Budget carrier GoAir has successfully tested TaxiBot—a semi-robotic pilot-operated tow vehicle—at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Thus GoAir has joined the global league of airlines that are planning to use TaxiBots to reduce fuel combustion as well as noise pollution. Rather than the conventional system where the GoAir pilot switches on the engine to take the plane from parking bay to the runway, in future, the pilots will use TaxiBots to transport GoAir aircraft to the runway without switching the engine on, the airline mentioned in a press release.

Besides, TaxiBots will also ensure faster turnaround and result in better on-time performance.