Lok Sabha Question No. 1891 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-28
Subject: Night Landing Facility at Airports
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, DNV Senthilkumar. S., Supriya Sadanand Sule, Sunil Dattatray Tatkare, Amol Ramsing Kolhe

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

## Lok Sabha

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 1891

( TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  28th July 2022 )

## NIGHT LANDING FACILITY AT AIRPORTS

1891.    DR. SUBHASH RAMRAO BHAMRE

DR. DNV SENTHILKUMAR S.

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE

SHRI SUNIL DATTATRAY TATKARE

DR. AMOL RAMSING KOLHE

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a)  whether the Government has failed to develop night landing facility in many
- airports in the country and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor;
- (b) the details of airports where there is no night landing facility, State-wise;
- (c) whether the Government has decided to upgrade technology to provide night landing facility at all airports in the country and if so, the time by which it is to be upgraded;
- (d)  the  mechanism  employed  by  Airports  Authority  of  India  (AAI)  to  measure visibility in airports without night landing facilities;
- (e)  the  procedure  followed  by  ground-staff  in  permitting  an  aircraft  on  flight  to land at airports without night landing facilities; and
- (f)  whether  many  airports  in  the  country  do  not  have  mechanical  devices  to measure visibility levels and depend on visual capacities of individual Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs), if so, the details thereof and the steps being taken to address the issue?

## ANSWER

Minister of CIVIL AVIATION      (Shri Jyotiraditya M&#46; Scindia)

- (a) to (c): The upgradation/ modernisation of airports, including provision of night landing facility, is a continuous process and is undertaken by Airports Authority of India  (AAI)  and  other  airport  operators  from  time  to  time  depending  on  the availability of land, commercial viability, socio- economic considerations, traffic demand / willingness of airlines to operate to/from such airports etc.

Presently,  night  landing  facility,  which  is  purely  demand  and  need  based  on operational requirement of airlines and availability of land, is not available at 25 operational airports with scheduled flight operations as indicated in the Annexure.;

(d):  At  airports,  which  are  not  equipped  with  night  landing  facilities,  qualified Meteorological personnel of India Meteorological Department (IMD) provide data regarding  visibility,  wind  speed,  wind  direction  etc.  with  the  help  of  special equipment/instruments/devices.; (e):  No  aircraft  is  permitted  to  land  at  night  at  an  airport  which  does  not  have night-landing facility and the flight operations are permitted during daytime only.; (f):  The  reporting of  measured visibility does not depend on visual capacities of Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs). The visibility is measured and reported to ATCOs by qualified Meteorological personnel of IMD.

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Annexure referred to in parts (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1891 for 28.07.2022

## Operational  Airports  with  Scheduled  flight  operations  without  night  landing facility:

|   S. No. | State             | Name of the airport   |
|----------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    | Cudappah              |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh    | Kurnool               |
|        3 | Assam             | Rupsi                 |
|        4 | Arunachal Pradesh | Tezu                  |
|        5 | Arunachal Pradesh | Passighat             |
|        6 | Chhattisgarh      | Bilaspur              |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh      | Jagdalpur             |
|        8 | Daman & Diu       | Diu                   |
|        9 | Gujarat           | Keshod                |
|       10 | Haryana           | Hisar                 |
|       11 | Himachal Pradesh  | Dharamshala           |
|       12 | Himachal Pradesh  | Kullu                 |
|       13 | Himachal Pradesh  | Shimla                |
|       14 | Jharkhand         | Deoghar               |
|       15 | Karnataka         | Kalaburagi            |
|       16 | Lakshadweep       | Agatti                |
|       17 | Maharashtra       | Kolhapur              |
|       18 | Maharashtra       | Sindhudurg            |
|       19 | Punjab            | Ludhiana              |
|       20 | Puducherry        | Puducherry            |
|       21 | Sikkim            | Pakyong               |
|       22 | Tamil Nadu        | Salem                 |
|       23 | Uttarakhand       | Pantnagar             |
|       24 | Uttarakhand       | Pithoragarh           |
|       25 | Uttar Pradesh     | Kushinagar            |