News India DGCA aims at making IGI zero diversionary airport by year-end

DGCA aims at making IGI zero diversionary airport by year-end

New Delhi: Concerned over disruption of flights during fog season, aviation regulator DGCA today started examining issues to make Delhi airport a “zero diversionary” one by the year-end.A technical committee, headed by DGCA's Joint Director



It would also look into specific issues pertaining to international operations and the modalities to deal with passengers stranded due to fog.

Over 300 flights have been cancelled due to fog since December 17 last year, including 119 flights on a single day late last week.

The meeting on Tuesday reviewed the deployment of pilots, trained to operate the Instrument Landing System under Category III when the runway visibility range (RVR) of around 75 metres.

Under CAT-II and CAT-I conditions, the RVR is around 200 metres and 550 metres respectively.

The airlines have already been instructed to deploy adequate number of CAT-III trained pilots to operate flights to and from Delhi during fog.

They have also been asked to reschedule flights of non-CAT-III compliant aircraft like turboprop ATRs, Q-400, Canadian Regional Jets in this period.  

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