Cross-runway flight operations at Mumbai airport, given the green signal by the ministry of civil aviation in 2009, have been scrapped after airport officials argued simultaneous use of both runways was reducing the airport's capacity.
The idea behind simultaneous operations was to optimize the airport's flight handling capacity to 45-48 movements per hour. However, sources said the capacity did not go beyond 40 flights, so Mumbai airport is using only one runway for flights and reserving the second as a contingency option.
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