New Delhi: About 60 percent of Delhi airport which Eastern Taxiway (ECT) has been built and will be ready at the end of 2022, according to a statement on Wednesday.
After the ECT is assigned, the distance of the aircraft taxi will drop significantly from 9 km with only 2 km because it will be a taxi along a parallel taxi with a runway 11/29 and use the ECT to take a straight path to terminal 1 or vice versa, the statement said by Delhi International Airport Limited (Dial).
“At present, after landing on the runway 29/11 or take-off of this foundation, a plane must travel about 9 km.
During this period, passengers must remain on the plane,” he added.
The ECT will also help airline to save around 350 kg of fuel every time an airplane uses a taxi route provided by the ECT from the runway 29/11 to Terminal 1 and Vice-Versa, says the GMR Group LED dial.
This will translate in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide nearly 1,114 kg for each aircraft taxi along this route.
“Every year, the ECT is estimated to reduce emissions of around 55,000 tons of CO2 from aircraft,” said the connection.
As part of the airport expansion project, the dial integrates the departure terminal and the arrival of T1, the construction of the new T1 apron, 4.1 km-length increased modification of ECT and T3.