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ameya
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 Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:11 pm Post subject: Airport Closures - BOM & BLR |
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Airport Closures could hurt Airlines in India
AIRLINES MAY SEE DECREASE IN TRAFFIC AS FLIGHTS ARE CANCELLED OR RE-ROUTED
If there is anything which can stop the worlds fast growing aviation market, it is infrastructure! The industry which could tide over effects of demonetization and could handle increased air fare without losing customers seems to be helpless when it comes to airport closures.
Various airports across the country, including Mumbai – the second busiest and Bengaluru are slated for closures starting few days from now.
Mumbai will see its main runway 09/27 closed for all operations between 0900hrs to 1700hrs from Monday to Saturday beginning 1st February 2017. The closure will last till 29th April 2017. During this time the secondary runway 14/32 will be available. This runway does not have full length parallel taxiway and thus reduces the number of movements per hour, drastically impacting the On Time Performance which is already at an all-time low. While December saw the airport report an On Time Performance of just 55%, a fair weather month like October saw 64% flights on time. These numbers are only for domestic operations and does not include the International flights.
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Caliguy
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| What kills me is that BOM has the land to create another parallel runway. Vote banks stop it which is crazy |
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sumantra
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: Airport Closures - BOM & BLR |
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Very nice and thoughtful analysis, as usual.
Sir, you not only bring the news to us, your analysis helps us understand the situation better, form the point of view of your roving eagle eye!
- BOM: I guess there is no alternative
- BLR: the patch-up operations are really weird. Question: how statistically significant is the fog for the airport to go CAT-III? DEL's average of 15 days a year is statistically significant for DEL.
- TRV and VNS: re-carpeting, or something else?
- HYD route diversions: please post an analysis after a few months as well. We would love to read about how it went for the airport!
Thanks, Sumantra. |
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binaiks
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Airport Closures - BOM & BLR |
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| sumantra wrote: |
- BLR: the patch-up operations are really weird. Question: how statistically significant is the fog for the airport to go CAT-III? DEL's average of 15 days a year is statistically significant for DEL.
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The number of days fog affects BLR is less than 5 per year - but the number is steadily rising every year. The delays were terrible this year. So probably BLR is getting "future ready"
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