{"id":261940,"date":"2019-03-01T06:19:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261940"},"modified":"2019-03-01T06:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:19:16","slug":"delhis-igi-airport-set-to-see-over-1500-flights-a-day-by-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-igi-airport-set-to-see-over-1500-flights-a-day-by-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi\u2019s IGI airport set to see over 1,500 flights a day by May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight movements at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International airport is set to go beyond 1,500 flights per day by May, a top Delhi International Airport executive has said.<\/p>\n<p>The airport operator is undertaking high-intensity runway operation, which could increase current aircraft movements by 15% to 1515 each day. The country\u2019s busiest airport handles 1,324 flight movements currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got capacity constraint on both air side and terminal side. Currently, 25% of Delhi\u2019s air space is a no-fly zone due to VIP areas, Hindon airbase. We are training the ATC (air traffic controller) for the high-intensity runaway operation to tackle air side capacity constraint. The target is to increase our capacity by 200 flight movements in the next one-two months,\u201d DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar said at the CII Aviation Conclave 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight movements at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International airport is set to go beyond 1,500 flights per day by May, a top Delhi International Airport executive has said. The airport operator is undertaking high-intensity runway operation, which could increase current aircraft movements by 15% to 1515 each day. The country\u2019s busiest airport handles 1,324 flight movements currently. \u201cWe have got capacity constraint on both air side and terminal side. Currently, 25% of Delhi\u2019s air space is a no-fly zone due to VIP areas, Hindon airbase. We are training the ATC (air traffic controller) for the high-intensity runaway operation to tackle air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}