No night time touchdown facility at 25 airports in India
3 min readBy IANS
NEW DELHI: There are 25 airports throughout the nation which do not have night time touchdown services. Kushinagar airport, Shimla airport and not too long ago inaugurated Deoghar airport in Jharkhand are among the many listing of 25 airports.
The ministry of civil aviation on Monday stated within the Rajya Sabha that the upgradation or modernisation of airports, together with provision of night time touchdown facility is a steady course of and is undertaken by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and different airport operators occasionally relying on the supply of land, business viability, socio- financial issues, site visitors demand and willingness of airways to function to/from such airports and so on.
“Presently night landing facility which is purely demand and need based on operational requirement of airlines and availability of land is not available at 25 operational airports with scheduled flight operations,” stated the ministry.
The listing of airports not having night time touchdown facility additionally embrace airports like Kullu and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra and and Ludhiana in Punjab amongst others.
AAI has undertaken set up of an evening touchdown facility at Kolhapur airport. A workforce of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has carried out the inspection of the airport on June 10, 2022. AAI has already initiated motion for compliance of the observations made by DGCA through the inspection.
The nation has over 100 operational airports and officers stated that the airports not having night time touchdown services are largely these recording decrease air passenger site visitors. Airports Authority of India, which manages many of the airports in India, takes up a selected one for consideration for offering night time touchdown services, when airways present an curiosity throughout night time operations.
NEW DELHI: There are 25 airports throughout the nation which do not have night time touchdown services. Kushinagar airport, Shimla airport and not too long ago inaugurated Deoghar airport in Jharkhand are among the many listing of 25 airports.
The ministry of civil aviation on Monday stated within the Rajya Sabha that the upgradation or modernisation of airports, together with provision of night time touchdown facility is a steady course of and is undertaken by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and different airport operators occasionally relying on the supply of land, business viability, socio- financial issues, site visitors demand and willingness of airways to function to/from such airports and so on.
“Presently night landing facility which is purely demand and need based on operational requirement of airlines and availability of land is not available at 25 operational airports with scheduled flight operations,” stated the ministry.
The listing of airports not having night time touchdown facility additionally embrace airports like Kullu and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra and and Ludhiana in Punjab amongst others.
AAI has undertaken set up of an evening touchdown facility at Kolhapur airport. A workforce of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has carried out the inspection of the airport on June 10, 2022. AAI has already initiated motion for compliance of the observations made by DGCA through the inspection.
The nation has over 100 operational airports and officers stated that the airports not having night time touchdown services are largely these recording decrease air passenger site visitors. Airports Authority of India, which manages many of the airports in India, takes up a selected one for consideration for offering night time touchdown services, when airways present an curiosity throughout night time operations.
