Mumbai Airport Congestion

The new machines will be first installed in all major airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad and reach other airports within a year, reports said.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has prepared more than 100 personnel to man additional security counters expected to be handed over to it to ease the ongoing congestion at the airports of Delhi and Mumbai, official sources said.

A landing system instrument upgrade on the runway of Mumbai airport has been leading to cascading delays in flight operations since May 18. On Sunday, an Oman Air flight coming to Mumbai from Muscat was diverted to Hyderabad due to air traffic congestion over Mumbai airport.

Airports across the country are struggling to cope with a massive surge in passenger numbers and billions of rupees must be spent to boost their capacity, analysts have warned. India is witnessing a huge boom in air travel as a growing middle class increasingly takes to the skies but experts say infrastructure is failing to keep up.

Conglomerate GVK named after founder Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, which operates the airport in financial capital Mumbai, has won a bid to develop a new airport outside the city to ease congestion and cater to surging demand.

Seven years after the first decision was taken to rebuild Mumbai's dingy and congested Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, the wait is finally over. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today inaugurated the state-of-the-art Terminal 2 or T2.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), managed by GVK Group, said on Wednesday that it has commissioned a new exit taxiway that will help save up to 10 seconds of occupancy time for aircraft on the congested runway.

A series of accidents at the Mumbai International Airport has once again brought the focus back to its problems of congestion.

The new machines will be first installed in all major airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad and reach other airports within a year, reports said.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has prepared more than 100 personnel to man additional security counters expected to be handed over to it to ease the ongoing congestion at the airports of Delhi and Mumbai, official sources said.

A landing system instrument upgrade on the runway of Mumbai airport has been leading to cascading delays in flight operations since May 18. On Sunday, an Oman Air flight coming to Mumbai from Muscat was diverted to Hyderabad due to air traffic congestion over Mumbai airport.

Airports across the country are struggling to cope with a massive surge in passenger numbers and billions of rupees must be spent to boost their capacity, analysts have warned. India is witnessing a huge boom in air travel as a growing middle class increasingly takes to the skies but experts say infrastructure is failing to keep up.

Conglomerate GVK named after founder Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, which operates the airport in financial capital Mumbai, has won a bid to develop a new airport outside the city to ease congestion and cater to surging demand.

Seven years after the first decision was taken to rebuild Mumbai's dingy and congested Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, the wait is finally over. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today inaugurated the state-of-the-art Terminal 2 or T2.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), managed by GVK Group, said on Wednesday that it has commissioned a new exit taxiway that will help save up to 10 seconds of occupancy time for aircraft on the congested runway.

A series of accidents at the Mumbai International Airport has once again brought the focus back to its problems of congestion.