By means of IANS
NEW DELHI: There are 25 airports around the nation which should not have night time touchdown amenities. Kushinagar airport, Shimla airport and lately inaugurated Deoghar airport in Jharkhand are some of the record of 25 airports.
The ministry of civil aviation on Monday stated within the Rajya Sabha that the upgradation or modernisation of airports, together with provision of night time touchdown facility is a continuing procedure and is undertaken via Airports Authority of India (AAI) and different airport operators every so often relying at the availability of land, industrial viability, socio- financial issues, visitors call for and willingness of airways to function to/from such airports and many others.
“Right now night time touchdown facility which is only call for and want in line with operational requirement of airways and availability of land isn’t to be had at 25 operational airports with scheduled flight operations,” stated the ministry.
The record of airports now not having night time touchdown facility additionally come with airports like Kullu and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra and and Ludhiana in Punjab amongst others.
AAI has undertaken set up of an evening touchdown facility at Kolhapur airport. A workforce of Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has performed the inspection of the airport on June 10, 2022. AAI has already initiated motion for compliance of the observations made via DGCA right through the inspection.
The rustic has over 100 operational airports and officers stated that the airports now not having night time touchdown amenities are most commonly the ones recording decrease air passenger visitors. Airports Authority of India, which manages lots of the airports in India, takes up a specific one for attention for offering night time touchdown amenities, when airways display an passion right through night time operations.
NEW DELHI: There are 25 airports around the nation which should not have night time touchdown amenities. Kushinagar airport, Shimla airport and lately inaugurated Deoghar airport in Jharkhand are some of the record of 25 airports.
The ministry of civil aviation on Monday stated within the Rajya Sabha that the upgradation or modernisation of airports, together with provision of night time touchdown facility is a continuing procedure and is undertaken via Airports Authority of India (AAI) and different airport operators every so often relying at the availability of land, industrial viability, socio- financial issues, visitors call for and willingness of airways to function to/from such airports and many others.
“Right now night time touchdown facility which is only call for and want in line with operational requirement of airways and availability of land isn’t to be had at 25 operational airports with scheduled flight operations,” stated the ministry.
The record of airports now not having night time touchdown facility additionally come with airports like Kullu and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra and and Ludhiana in Punjab amongst others.
AAI has undertaken set up of an evening touchdown facility at Kolhapur airport. A workforce of Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has performed the inspection of the airport on June 10, 2022. AAI has already initiated motion for compliance of the observations made via DGCA right through the inspection.
The rustic has over 100 operational airports and officers stated that the airports now not having night time touchdown amenities are most commonly the ones recording decrease air passenger visitors. Airports Authority of India, which manages lots of the airports in India, takes up a specific one for attention for offering night time touchdown amenities, when airways display an passion right through night time operations.