Growing air traffic needs new air corridors

In just about over an year, air traffic has doubled in India with mid-air corridors almost clogged.
Pushed literally to a narrow lane, Indian carriers have now approached the Ministry of Defence to free more air corridors for civilian planes.
"The West-East corridor is the busiest one for international air traffic. Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Bangalore are the other two for the domestic sector. The width of corridor needs to be enhanced to allow more traffic," said V Thulasidas, CMD, Air India.
India's total airspace is 25-30 million sq km, 80 per cent of which is controlled by the Defence Ministry. In fact, only six million sq km is controlled by the Airports Authority.
03/01/07 Rumi Dutta Hardasmalani/NDTV.com

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