MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION
(SHRI PRAFUL PATEL)
(a) & (b): No, Madam. In normal circumstances flights do not
get delayed. But some times delay occurs due to bunching of
flights on account of bad weather, technical/operational reasons, etc.
(c) The average number of flights operated in a day from
each of the Internaional Airports in the country is as under:
Mumbai(MIAL) - 654, Delhi (DIAL) - 666, Chennai - 306,
Banglore (BIAL) - 280, Kolkata - 231, Hyderabad (GHIAL) -
219, Cochin - 112, Ahmedabad- 107, Guwahati - 90, Trivandrum
- 71, Goa - 64, Calicut - 50, Jaipur - 66, Nagpur - 48, Port
Blair - 15, Srinagar - 27, Amritsar - 27, Pune - 66, Indore
- 61, Juhu - 60, Bhopal - 59, Lucknow - 56, Vadodra - 54,
Bhubaneswar - 50, Coimbatore - 42, Visakhapatnam - 33,
Ranchi - 32, Raipur - 31, Mangalore - 30, Patna - 27, Jammu
- 23, Agartala - 23, Trichy - 21, Chandigarh - 21, Udaipur -
21, Imphal - 19, Madurai - 20, Bagdogra - 19, Varanasi - 16,
Aurangabad - 14, Silchar - 11, Tirupati - 9, Jodhpur - 7,
Leh - 6, Rajkot - 6, Gaya - 1.
(d) & (e): Various steps have been taken up to decongest the pressure at major
Airports:
1. Airport operators have initiated measures for high speed
exit taxi-ways at Delhi and Mumbai airports. A parallel
taxi-track has been constructed at Delhi airport by which
runway occupancy time has been reduced cosiderably.
2. Delhi International Airport Ltd. has constructed third
runway to accommodate more arrivals and departures at Delhi Airport.
3. Simultaneous use of both runways at Delhi and Mumbai
airports has been started during the traffic congestion period.
4. The beginning of runway 32 and 27 have been joined by
constructing a new taxi-track and beginning of runway 27 is
being joined from international apron at Mumbai to reduce
runway occupancy time.
5. AAI has already taken up the project for upgradation of
35 non-metro airports enable to handle the increased air
traffic at those airports.
6. Improved ATC procedures have been designed.
7 Clearance Delivery Position has been established at
Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad international
airports to reduce R/T congestion.
8. Ban on general aviation aircraft during peak period at
Mumbai airport has been imposed.
9. Advance Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
(ASMGCS) along with surface movement radar has been
Installed and in operation at Delhi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports.
10. Kolkata ILS is being upgraded to CAT II ILS.
11. At the time of slot allocation schedule arrival and
departure time are spread in such a manner that bunching
should not take place resulting into delays.
12. The number of hourly movements of flights has been
optimised at Mumbai and Delhi airports as per availability
of runway / terminal building capacity.
