Alarm bells have begun to ring for Mumbai airport. While the Navi Mumbai airport project is caught in a web of stalled environmental clearances, the Civil Aviation Ministry is seriously considering banning any more turboprop jets in the private category at Mumbai to accommodate more commercial flights.
“There will soon have to be a general ban on additional flights for turboprop jets in the private category. What can I do? The airport is reaching saturation point. Mumbai desperately needs a second airport,” Patel told The Indian Express.
Turboprop jets in the private category — largely the Cessna and King Air series — are used mostly by corporate houses and there are roughly 30-40 movements of such aircraft in a day.
With top corporate leaders now using state-of-the-art executive jets, the turboprops are mostly meant for company executives and, at times, are even used by political parties. Given that they are slower on take-off, these aircraft tend to delay arrival and departure of commercial jets.
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