15-05-2025
Navi Mumbai airport's opening delayed till Aug, says advisory notice for pilots
Mumbai: The under-construction Navi Mumbai airport was scheduled to be opened by May 15 according to the Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) document brought out in March this year.
But since the airport has not been commissioned yet, the
Airports Authority of India
(AAI) issued a NOTAM (notice to airmen) stating that the airport will not be available until Aug.
An AIP is a user manual of sorts carrying general and navigational information about an aerodrome, largely for use by airlines and pilots.
"The notice, issued on Tuesday, states that the aerodrome at Navi Mumbai will not be available for operations till Aug 6," said a source.
If the airport is not commissioned by then, another NOTAM will need to be issued, the source added.
The purpose of the NOTAM is to keep pilots updated about the non-functional status of the Navi Mumbai airport and its runway.
In case of a forced landing or an emergency, the pilots concerned would know that the runway strip at Navi Mumbai hasn't been commissioned and so it doesn't have the facilities available at other operational airports.
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In India, the AIP is published by Airports Authority of India, the country's air navigation provider. When it was published in March, Navi Mumbai AIP hadn't carried departure and arrival routes. It had vital information on runway, taxiways, aprons, parking bays, firefighting, and emergency services, fuelling capacity, cargo facilities, information on disabled aircraft removal, equipment and radars installed, meteorological services, etc.
The
Navi Mumbai Aeronautical Information Publication
(AIP) document also carries a list of airport obstacles with 225 obstacles, which include 86 residential buildings, 79 points on the hills nearby, 23 pylon masts, 12 cell phone masts, eight floodlights, four electric poles, three silos, three cranes, etc. The AIP gives information on the type of obstacle, its elevation, and location in coordinates.
