The IGI airport got its third runway on Thursday but don't expect hovering time over the airport to reduce just yet. For, the 75-metre-wide and 4,430-metre-long runway

THE government is planning to ensure dedicated express rail and road connectivity for future greenfield airports. Mandatory connectivity by mass rapid transit system to airports is expected to be a part of the airport's master plan. The government is planning to build new airports in some of the major cities such as Pune, Navi Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam.

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NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi Standing Committee chairman Vijender Gupta on Tuesday said the civic body would initiate necessary steps to curb bird menace around Delhi airport.

Ranchi : The Birsa Munda Airport (BMA) authorities would have to part with some land for a four-lane approach road to the terminal from Hinoo Chowk.

Officials said they are planning to expand the approach road to 25m. The Rs 3-crore project is being planned in view of the National Games.

According to the plan, the boundary wall of the airport from Hinoo Chowk to where the state government's hangar begins would be demolished to make way for the road.

With the cost of aviation turbine fuel escalating sharply, India's domestic airlines are lurching from one crisis to another. Hardly a week passes without one airline or another marking up its fares or reporting heavy losses. Already, some of them have pruned the number of their flights and have hinted at further rationalisation, which invariably means scaling down. Those are steps in the right direction but are too few and probably too late from the standpoint of th e industry's health.

Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow July 17, 2008, 0:18 IST The project will not be able to meet its Commonwealth deadline The Centre has put the proposed Rs 3,500-crore global airport hub at Noida in Uttar Pradesh into cold storage and the ambitious project would not be able to keep its date with the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The matter is pending approval from the Union Cabinet since long even as the government has allowed development of a greenfield airport within the 150-km radius of an existing one on a case-to-case basis.

Rising oil prices are creating pain for airport developers too. Faced with a slowdown in the domestic aviation industry, both the Airports Authority of India and private players are now fearing lower revenues and seeking ways to cut costs, after investing huge amounts on infrastructure improvements.

The ground water level at Calcutta airport has risen to six inches below the primary runway this monsoon, adding to safety concerns triggered by rubber deposits and patches of concrete peeling off the main tarmac. "One of the reasons for the surface becoming fragile is the rising water level under the runway. During monsoon, the condition is aggravated, and this is causing moisture accumulation on the runway,' a senior airport official said on Sunday.