No flight diversions and no peak hour air congestion etc at Chennai airport
Posted on: 02/Jul/2019 10:01:41 AM
Till now many flight diversions plus peak hour air congestion have been taking place in the Chennai airport and this been creating many issues for the travellers.
It is now revealed that soon these two above mentioned problems would be eliminated at the Chennai airport. Important information is command centre for air traffic flow management that was opened recently in Delhi would allot slots for the airlines for both taking-off and for landing.
By monitoring the air and ground congestions at the airport, the above said command centre would be functioning. It is well known that the airports in places like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru are highly congested ones and monitoring of air as well as ground congestion would be carried out in these airports.
Important information is air traffic controllers at Chennai would associate with those at Delhi base command centre and based on their instructions clearance for airplanes taking off would be given. By this method, if there is any issue at the destined airports, then the need for diversion of planes to other airports would be avoided. One more advantage is the incoming planes would have idea regarding the number of planes that are lined up over the airport waiting for the landing permission.
It must be noted that on an average 15 to 20 planes are approaching to land at a time and peak time air traffic congestion is one major issue of Chennai airport. Information collected is due to this peak hour air congestion in Delhi airport, flights to Delhi often gets diverted to Jaipur and to nearby airports. In a similar manner, flights to Bengaluru airport from other airports get diverted to Chennai in the night peak hours. This would add pressure on the air traffic controllers and the ground staffs.
It should be taken into account that there are back to back departures and arrivals in Chennai in the peak hours. This was due to the planes being allotted based on the requests made by the airlines. It is revealed that at about 35 airports, air traffic controllers could get details about real time flight position by this system.
