NEW DELHI: Air India may not take diversion fuel on flights to destinations with multiple runways, in a bid to fly lighter planes and thereby cut fuel burn. It made the start on Monday by operating a Dreamliner with no alternate\/diversion fuel from Delhi to Hyderabad, whose Shamshabad Airport has a main and a standby runway.
\nAI\u2019s next aim will be to follow the \u201cdespatch with no destination alternate\u201d approach on flights headed to Delhi in good weather and clear visibility months as the capital\u2019s IGI Airport has three runways, said Captain Amitabh Singh, AI\u2019s director-operations who thought of and implemented the \u201cperfectly safe\u201d approach. Saving fuel burn on flights to its main hub, Delhi, could lead to substantial reduction in the cash-strapped airline\u2019s fuel bill.
\nFuel uplift for a flight is decided by adding requirement for these segments of a journey: fuel for going from origin to destination; hovering fuel at destination; fuel to go to a diversion airport in case the destination is not available for some reason like some aircraft getting stuck on its single runway and finally hovering fuel at alternate\/diversion airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Air India may not take diversion fuel on flights to destinations with multiple runways, in a bid to fly lighter planes and thereby cut fuel burn. It made the start on Monday by operating a Dreamliner with no alternate\/diversion fuel from Delhi to Hyderabad, whose Shamshabad Airport has a main and a standby runway. AI\u2019s next aim will be to follow the \u201cdespatch with no destination alternate\u201d approach on flights headed to Delhi in good weather and clear visibility months as the capital\u2019s IGI Airport has three runways, said Captain Amitabh Singh, AI\u2019s director-operations who thought of and […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272016","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=272016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}