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With A Flight in 65 Seconds, Mumbai World's Busiest Single-Runway Airport

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The GVK group-run Mumbai airport has become the world's busiest amongst the single-runway facilities by handling 837 flights a day or one in 65 seconds on an average in fiscal 2017, overtaking London's Gatwick airport that had 757 flights a day. In terms of the number of passengers also, the city airport tops with 45.2 million people flying in and out in fiscal 2017 as against 44 million at Gatwick airport. Notably, no other large city in the world is served by one airport, that too with a single-runway. Besides, illegal squatters occupy nearly one-third of the airport land. The second airport proposed in Navi Mumbai is yet to come up.   All the leading cities like New York, London, Dubai, and Singapore have more than one airports with multiple runways. The New Delhi airport has three parallel runways in use at any given time. As against this, Mumbai has to make do with a single runway (09/27) for all passenger and cargo aircraft and when it is shut for repairs, it ...
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Are the Israelis Planning Another 9-11 Using the Missing Boeing 777?

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Qatar Airways grounds half its Airbus A380 fleet permanently

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Qatar Airways' Airbus A380 superjumbos will not fly again " for the foreseeable future ", according to the airline's chief executive, with at least half permanently grounded. Speaking at an aviation forum, Akbar Al Baker said the world's largest passenger aircraft had been surpassed by more efficient alternatives such as the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Qatar CEO said that the airline had never expected those aircraft to be as efficient as they have proven to be. " The 380, I think, is one of the worst aircraft, when it comes to emissions, that is flying today ," he said. " This is why we have decided that we will not operate them for the foreseeable future. And even when we operate them, we will only operate half of the numbers we have. So if you are very interested to purchase some for yourself, I will sell it to you ," he joked. Qatar Airways has 10 A380s in its fleet, having received its first superjumbo in 2014. The ...
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