Pune Airport runway expansion: Mohol says survey results positive

According to officials, the OLS survey was conducted successful July by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), focusing connected the improvement of the city’s aviation sector.

The curate said the gathering discussed cardinal issues related to Pune Airport’s development, including runway expansion, operation of caller facilities and accommodation of larger ‘Code E’ aircraft, which are utilized for planetary flights.

“This gathering was organised to sermon cognition of ‘Code E’ craft to beforehand planetary flights from Pune. It’s a pleasance that the OLS related to reviewing the applicable viability of this task was completed successful grounds time, chiefly uncovering the viability of this task positive,” Mohol said.

Last month, Mohol announced that IndiGo would statesman regular flights to Dubai and thrice-weekly flights to Bangkok from Pune Airport, starting October 28.

The gathering besides addressed different cardinal issues, specified arsenic onshore acquisition by the authorities government, onshore transportation by the Ministry of Defence, apron country development, and runway magnitude extension.

Aviation adept Dhairyashil Vandekar welcomed the news, stating that the request for a longer runway has existed for implicit a decade. He highlighted that the lack of an extended runway prevented wide-body craft from operating astatine Pune Airport, limiting nonstop planetary connectivity to destinations similar the US oregon Europe.

Vandekar spoke astir his 15-year-long effort to resoluteness Pune Airport’s runway enlargement issues by engaging with assorted stakeholders, including Pune’s Guardian Minister, the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). “In 2018, the IAF indicated that runway hold could not proceed unless the Lohegaon-Yerwada roadworthy astatine the extremity of Runway 10 was closed, with a tribunal lawsuit and a enactment from the Pune District Court further delaying progress. The PMC was tasked with constructing an alternate roadworthy to facilitate the closure,” helium said.