The Airport authority of India (AAI) has drawn Bihar government’s attention for facilitating an early transfer of land to develop fresh infrastructure at the Jayaprakash Narayan International (JPNI) airport in state capital Patna as part of its ongoing mega redevelopment plan, airport officials said.
A senior official of the JPNI said the government’s attention towards the long-pending demand for transfer of additional land was drawn through a string of tweets from the official handle of Patna airport on Friday.
In a tweet, carrying sketch of the master plan, the authority stated “…parallel taxi track (PTT) will be constructed at Patna airport once the proposed land (measuring around 26 acres) is transferred to the AAI by the state government… The PTT will drastically improve the runway’s flight handling capacity by accommodating more flights in a given time. This will also reduce flight delays on ground and in air resulting in fuel saving and reduced CO2 emissions.”
