The government and its various agencies bicker. Fliers like you and me pay the price.
This, in short, is the story of the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport in Patna — the facility does little to honour the great man it is named after.
Lack of consensus between the Bihar government and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) — which works under the Union civil aviation ministry — over the years on either extending the runway or shifting the airport to a new location does not only force the airlines to operate under “risky” conditions, but also keeps adding to the woes of fliers in different forms.
The brunt of the short runway curse at the city airport was yet again borne by hundreds of fliers during the past two days after the directorate-general of civil aviation restricted GoAir and IndiGo airlines to fly their aircraft with full passenger load.
Hundreds of passengers faced sudden cancellation of tickets due to the strict stand taken by DGCA — which regulates civil aviation in India — after it found that both airlines were violating load penalty norms for around a fortnight.
According to the load penalty norms applicable at airports with short runways, the operators have to reduce the weight of aircraft by leaving around 20 per cent of the seats vacant or offload cargo items. This, so that the necessary engine thrust is available for smooth take-off when the temperature is high, usually 40 degrees Celsius or above.
Read news in full 18/06/14 Piyush Kumar Tripathi/Telegraph
This, in short, is the story of the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport in Patna — the facility does little to honour the great man it is named after.
Lack of consensus between the Bihar government and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) — which works under the Union civil aviation ministry — over the years on either extending the runway or shifting the airport to a new location does not only force the airlines to operate under “risky” conditions, but also keeps adding to the woes of fliers in different forms.
The brunt of the short runway curse at the city airport was yet again borne by hundreds of fliers during the past two days after the directorate-general of civil aviation restricted GoAir and IndiGo airlines to fly their aircraft with full passenger load.
Hundreds of passengers faced sudden cancellation of tickets due to the strict stand taken by DGCA — which regulates civil aviation in India — after it found that both airlines were violating load penalty norms for around a fortnight.
According to the load penalty norms applicable at airports with short runways, the operators have to reduce the weight of aircraft by leaving around 20 per cent of the seats vacant or offload cargo items. This, so that the necessary engine thrust is available for smooth take-off when the temperature is high, usually 40 degrees Celsius or above.
Read news in full 18/06/14 Piyush Kumar Tripathi/Telegraph
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