The Mumbai airport’s secondary runway will open on Thursday but the targeted operational gains will not come immediately. This is because construction will continue on the two new taxiways that were supposed to open along with it.
Taxiways Echo 9 and Echo 10, once completed, are expected to halve the runway occupancy time (ROT) of departing aircraft, both domestic and international. “The ROT of departing domestic aircraft will come down to one minute from two, and the ROT for international departures will come down to two-and-a-half minutes from five,” said a senior airport official. “However, under the current situation, there will be no gains on the operational front,” he said.
Echo 9 and Echo 10 are being constructed on the domestic terminal end of the secondary runway, 14/32, and their major function will be to provide quicker access to departing aircraft. Echo 9 is expected to open within two weeks of opening of the secondary runway, while the construction of Echo 10 has been delayed because of a pipeline of the Indian Oil, the spokesperson for the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) said.
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