Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi: 4,430 mt
The Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on August 21 got India's longest runway.
The third runway at IGI will allow the airport to double the number of flights it handles every hour with one flight taking off or landing every minute.
The runway, christened 29/11, has CAT IIIB instrument landing system (ILS) on both Dwarka and Vasant Kunj sides which will allow aircraft to land even when the visibility is as low as 50-metre. Delhi will be the only airport in India to have three runways with CAT IIIB facility on two runways.
The 4,430 metre Code-F complaint runway can handle the wide bodied aircraft like Airbus A-380 and Antonov AN-225.
Image: Indian groundstaff supervise a water cannon salute given by fire tenders to a special inaugural flight by an Air India Boeing 777 as it taxies on new runway '11-29' at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. | Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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