Mumbai airport created a new record

MUMBAI, MAY 15: Mumbai airport terminal discreetly overtook London's Gatwick to become the world's busiest airport that works with a single runway.

For the air terminal administrator and Mumbai aviation authority, it's an accomplishment. They now handle a standout amongst the most difficult occupations in the world, as every 65 seconds an aircraft either takes off from or touches down at the Mumbai air airport.

For the administration, however, it would involve disgrace as no other significant city on the planet is overhauled by a solitary aeroplane terminal that has a solitary operational runway.

The principle air terminals of most significant urban communities, for example, Delhi, Dubai, Singapore, Sydney, London and New York handle airship with no less than two parallel runways being used.

All traveller and cargo aircraft work from a solitary runway — either the primary runway (0927) or, when it's closed for repairs, the secondary one (1432).



The Financial year ending March 2017, Mumbai air terminal dealt with 45.2 million travellers, beating Gatwick's 44 million. 'As of now, Mumbai air terminal handles 837 entries or departures in a day. A normal of 80 flights more than Gatwick, which handles 757 movements in a day,' said an airplane terminal authority.

A senior air activity controller, while asking for obscurity, stated, said, "We position two arrivals every 130 seconds and one departure in between these two arrivals. So there is one take-off or touchdown every 65 seconds from the main runway of Mumbai airport."

What makes the occupation extreme is when flight operations must have to be moved to the less proficient optional runway. For example, amongst February and April 2017, from 9 am to 5 pm, flight operations were moved to the optional runway as the principle one was taken up for support work.