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Headline: Panel set up for airspace management
Source: PTI - Sify.com: http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=13969015
Date: Friday, 21 October 2005.
Full text:
New Delhi: A panel, headed by Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, has been
constituted to resolve issues between the civilian and military aviation
operators and streamline management of the Indian airspace.
The committee was formed after a meeting between Patel and Air Chief S P
Tyagi recently in which issues concerning several airports, being operated
by the armed forces, came up for discussion.
There are several airports in the country, where civilian air traffic is on
the rise, but restrictions on air operations for civilian purposes exist as
most of them are operated by the Indian Air Force.
These include Pune, Agra, Chandigarh, Jamnagar, Jodhpur and some in the
Northeast. The airport at Panaji in Goa is operated by the Indian Navy,
while the one at Daman falls under the Coast Guard.
Problems faced by the civilian operators include the timing of operations,
the air corridor through which the aircraft should fly, parking areas, air
traffic control and management and night landing, sources said.
The vast spread of land available at many of these airports could also be
used for civilian purposes keeping in mind the security imperatives, they
said.
The air force and civilian entities, including the Airports Authority of
India and the airlines, have been in talks to resolve these issues from time
to time.
The committee would go into the entire spectrum of problems with a view to
resolve them, the sources said.
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