Bengaluru airport's second runway to be ready by September 2019
07:44PM Thu 9 Feb, 2017
BENGALURU: With Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) clocking a growth rate of 22.5 per cent annum, airport promoter --Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) -- is gearing up to upgrade the existing runway to facilitate more air traffic movements (ATMs).
According to a BIAL communication, the runway upgradation work will commence shortly and it will include building of two Rapid Exit Taxiways (RETs) to increase the runway capability. While the current runway capability is 34 ATMs per hour the two additional RETs will increase the ATMs to 44 per hour.
The upgradation of existing runway comes at a time when the work on the second runway is under progress. BIAL stated: "The second runway will be completed by September 2019. This new runway will have CAT III B ILS and will cater to all types of aircraft including A380 in all weather conditions. This will also have an associated parallel taxiway and two cross field taxiways."
This apart, work on the second terminal (T2), which has been designed by an US-based architectural firm, will commence this year. On completion, T2 will cater to 45 million passengers per annum. The combined capacity of T1 and T2 will be around 65 million passengers per annum.
In 2016, KIA clocked 22.18 million passengers: While the annual domestic passengers was 18.62 million the total international passengers recorded was 3.56 million. On an average, about 60,000 persons have travelled through the airport everyday. BIAL claimed that its baggage delivery time excelled with the average time for the first baggage to be delivered being eight minutes for both domestic and international travel. The average airport taxi waiting time clocked was seven minutes.
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