Mumbai airport's second runway on hold

Mumbai: Mumbai’s international airport will not have a new parallel runway until more land is available. Nor will it have a separate terminal for budget airlines unless the government offers cheaper ground handling and airport charges.
Unveiling its master plan, Mumbai International Airport Ltd, the GVK group-led venture that has the licence to modernise the Mumbai airport, said it had designed a parallel runway and had identified all the constraints that would come in its way.
"These include rehabilitation of slums, relocation of facilities, buying large tracts of private land and removing a number of private buildings that are obstructing the funnel," said Mumbai International Airport Ltd Managing Director GV Sanjay Reddy. He added that 137 buildings and 42 other structures, including airlines’ facilities, were obstructing the parallel runway.
The Mumbai airport has two runways intersecting each other and only one is fully operational. The other one is used only during peak traffic.
13/10/06 Business Standard

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