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Elevated taxiway, new runway part of airport upgrade

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July 08, 2023

The new dual-elevated Eastern Cross Taxiway (ECT) will be inaugurated and become operational at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on July 13, the airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said on Friday. The inauguration will be done by Union minister for civil aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia, who will also inaugurate the airport’s fourth runway on the same day, officials said.

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Elevated taxiway, new runway part of airport upgrade

NEW DELHI: Officials said that ECT – the first-of-its-kind structure for India — will give passengers heading to the airport through the central spine road or the Radisson road a view of the aircraft taxiing above them, which is similar to Singapore’s Changi International airport. DIAL says the 2.1km-long ECT – capable of handling two aircrafts simultaneously — will reduce the time a passenger spends in the aircraft by almost half, bringing it down from 20 to 25 minutes earlier to 10-12 minutes.

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