Mumbai airport, the busiest single-runway airport in the world has for the first time crossed 1,000 aircraft movements in a single day, breaking its earlier record of 988 single-day arrivals and departures, reports said on Wednesday.
"Mumbai airport has achieved 1,003 aircraft movement in 24-hour yesterday," a Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) spokesperson said. This was the highest-ever traffic handled by the airport in a single day, it added.
The single-runway operated Mumbai airport handled 48.49 million passengers in FY18, registering a 7.4 per cent growth over FY17.
Mumbai airport, with two crossing runways - 09/27 (the main) and 14/32 (the secondary runway) - is the main hub of full service carrier Jet Airways and budget airline GoAir.
The primary runway can handle up to 48 arrivals and departures per hour, meanwhile the secondary runway has a capacity of 35 flight movements per hour.
“Airport has complex and restricted operations due to what is effectively a single-runway system. Productivity from that runway is already high, with Mumbai achieving 46-50 hourly movements, approaching the global best practice level of 55. Hence further efficiency upside is limited,” CAPA had said.
-PTC News
