Google Earth's view of Chennai AirportThe Chennai airport, the 3rd busiest airport in India has opened its secondary cross runway for take-offs. In 2006-07, 5.9 million international passengers travelled through this airport and it handled an average of 329 aircraft movements per day with 21 international and 10 domestic airlines. Due to increase in air traffic, the AAI decided to bifurcate the Area control centre into two sectors - east and west. The new 2,085 metre long runway intersects the existing 3,658 metre long main runway. Now the airport will handle 40% of the traffic in east sector and the remaining in the west sector. The east sector will handle Chennai-Bangalore-Kolkata route and the west sector will handle the routes from Thiruvanthapuram to Mumbai. Till now it took 3 minutes for a take-off. But hereafter the airport can achieve two take-offs in just two minutes so that the aircraft movement per hour, both arrivals and departures will increase from 25 to 32.
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