According to a senior Adani Group executive on Sunday, the forthcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport is scheduled to open on April 17 and be operational starting early in the upcoming fiscal year. The path to obtaining an aerodrome licence to begin commercial operations was cleared earlier in the day when an IndiGo A320 passenger plane made a successful landing at runway 26/08 of the still-under-construction Navi Mumbai International Airport.
Following the successful trial landing of the first civil passenger aircraft, Arun Bansal, CEO of Adani Airport Holdings Ltd., told the media, “Our ambition is to do the commercial inauguration of the airport by April 17.”
According to Bansal, domestic operations will begin in the second half of May because there will be some procedures to follow following the first flight, which should take four weeks or so. Additionally, he stated that “we expect to start international operations” by the end of July.
With the successful landing at 1.32 pm on runway 26/08, Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMAI) drew a step closer to becoming operational with its first validation test of a commercial jet, the airport announced. Two NMIA Crash Fire Tenders (CFT) greeted the aircraft with the customary water salute.
For Navi Mumbai International Airport, today is a historic day. The validation flight’s successful conclusion marks a significant turning point, and we are now one step closer to operationalising the airport while putting safety first,” Bansal stated.
The coordinated operation of Instrument Approach Procedures at NMIA is confirmed and validated by a commercial aircraft landing. In order for the DGCA to verify the data gathered from the flight and for NMIA to obtain the aerodrome license—which is necessary to run the airport—the exercise consists of technical evaluation, landing, and takeoff manoeuvres.
Following the successful landing, the Electronic Aeronautical Information Publication (eAIP) will publish NMIA’s defined flight procedures for global dissemination.
NMIA successfully completed the Instrument Landing System (ILS) and Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) flight calibration before to the validation flight’s landing. NMIA then draughted instrument approach procedures to get ready for the validation flight’s arrival.
Source: ET Realty
