AAI signs MoU for implementing GBSA

Airports Authority of India today signed an MoU with United States Trade Development Agency (USTDA) for implementing its pilot study on Ground-Based Augmentation System, which would help increase the overall air traffic handling capacity at the Chennai Airport.

Civil Aviation Secretary Dr Nasim Zaidi exchanged documents with United States Trade Development Agency Lee Zak in the presence of Airports Authority of India Chairman VP Agrawal for the project, funded by the US Trade Development Agency, under the India-US Aviation Cooperation programme.

According to the MoU, the US agency would assist in training, certification and project implementation, an airport statement said.

The system would facilitate significant benefits to airlines in terms of multiple final approach paths, support for take-off operations to and from multiple runways, thereby increasing the overall air traffic handling capacity, it said.

With the implementation of this programme, India would join a "select band of countries" to implement Ground Based Augmentation System, the release said.