Chennai Airport plans Rs.100 cr infrastructure

In order to add to its passengers and cargo handling capacities, the Chennai Airport has planned to expand its air-side infrastructure with two rapid exit-ways to enable faster exit of aircraft from runway and also a taxiway will be straightened for expediting aircraft movement, said Airport director, G Chandramouli, adding that the entire exercise will be carried out at an investment of Rs.100 crore. The two rapid two exits will enable aircraft to move to apron and vacate runway quickly. From either direction, the distance of the exit will be around 1,800 m. This will enhance airport’s capacity immediately to 36 aircraft movements per hour from the present 32. At the Chennai airport, for every 1.85 minutes, one aircraft either lands or takes off that this means that in less than one minute, an aircraft need to vacate the runway.