{"id":304158,"date":"2019-12-04T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T07:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304158"},"modified":"2019-12-04T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T07:31:54","slug":"kias-old-runway-to-be-closed-for-upgrade-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kias-old-runway-to-be-closed-for-upgrade-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"KIA\u2019s old runway to be closed for upgrade in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the December 5 launch of the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)\u2019s second runway, passengers and airlines will have to wait another 10 months to get the full benefit. Reason: the existing runway is set for an eight-month closure for resurfacing and upgrade. <\/p>\n<p>Once the New South Parallel Runway (NSPR) begins full operation with CAT-IIIB Instrument Landing System (ILS) by late February, the existing North Runway is likely to be shut down for commercial flights in March 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The runway\u2019s upgrade to a CAT-IIIB ILS from its current CAT-I stage will require a complete resurfacing. Aviation analysts say the runway now lacks the centre-line lighting for an upgrade that will allow flights to land and take off even in low visibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the December 5 launch of the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA)\u2019s second runway, passengers and airlines will have to wait another 10 months to get the full benefit. Reason: the existing runway is set for an eight-month closure for resurfacing and upgrade. Once the New South Parallel Runway (NSPR) begins full operation with CAT-IIIB Instrument Landing System (ILS) by late February, the existing North Runway is likely to be shut down for commercial flights in March 2020. The runway\u2019s upgrade to a CAT-IIIB ILS from its current CAT-I stage will require a complete resurfacing. Aviation analysts say the runway now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304158","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}