AAI constructing parallel taxiway at Delhi airport

New Delhi: Implementing the recommendations made by the Roy Paul Committee almost a year later, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has started constructing a parallel taxiway. A step that will speed up things in the air, AAI is also adding 10 other smaller taxiways to ensure better manoeuvrability of planes and allow near simultaneous use of the runways.
The result: the handling capacity of the airport will go up tremendously. "Despite Delhi having two runways, only one is being used for operations at a time because of the converging nature of the runways. The secondary runway 27, is being mainly used as a taxiway, as there was no link route available for the aircraft landing on the main runway to go into the domestic apron,'' said airport official.
Now with a major taxiway --being built at a furious speed -- being constructed parallel to both the runways, the secondary runway will be used for domestic departures.
03/04/06 The Hindu

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