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The Tiruchi International Airport has been equipped with Runway Guard Lights (RGL) arsenic a measurement to amended information of craft operations successful each upwind conditions particularly successful debased visibility.
Tiruchi was 1 of the airports identified by the Airports Authority of India successful the Southern portion for the installation of the RGL. The installation has been provided to forestall unintentional incursion into the progressive runway. The RGL has been installed astatine 4 taxiways which were identified for this facility. It consists of 2 pairs of yellowish lights with 1 brace each connected either broadside of the taxiway and could beryllium operated independently.
The RGL lodging is made retired of aluminium alloys and the full portion is painted successful pulverization coated aviation yellowish colour. Anti-glare visors person been provided to guarantee visibility during the time and the airy fixture is mounted connected frangible coupling. The RGL would assistance pilots to intelligibly spot the intersection of the runway and taxiway which would amended information during instrumentality disconnected and landing.
The RGL facility would amended information of craft operations successful each upwind conditions particularly successful debased visibility, said S.S. Raju, Airport Director, Tiruchi. Approval had been obtained from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation for putting successful spot the installation astatine a outgo of astir ₹33 lakh and it was operationalised recently, he added.
The Tiruchi airdrome has a azygous runway of 2,423 metres agelong and handles Airbus 300 / 321/ 320 and B-737 benignant aircraft. It is the 2nd airdrome successful Tamil Nadu to grip much overseas flights aft Chennai. The fig of planetary flights operated to and from this airdrome is much arsenic compared to home services. Flights are operated to overseas destinations specified arsenic Colombo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sharjah, and Dubai by antithetic carriers.
The airdrome handled a small implicit 13.98 lakh planetary passengers during the 2024-25 fiscal year. This fig was somewhat higher than the 1 recorded successful 2023-24 fiscal erstwhile the airdrome handled 13.05 lakh overseas passengers.
