exit taxiway

By 2013, 11 rapid exit taxiways will be constructed.

The airport has five rapid exit taxiways.

Work on a secondary runway extension, rapid exit taxiways and parking bays are in progress.

Chennai airport does not have rapid exit taxiways that help pilots to vacate a runway without slowing down the aircraft soon after landing.

In the meantime, the Authority has invested heavily in extending aprons and creating rapid exit taxiways to derive maximum efficiency from the existing main runway.

On 2 September 2011, Turkish Airlines Flight 720, from Istanbul, skidded off rapid exit taxiway N8 after landing.

There are two 3000x30m parallel taxiways, including five exit taxiways (30m wide) and four connecting taxiways (also 30m).

There are high speed exit taxiways on both runways that allow for traffic to depart the Runway at a higher rate of speed to allow better efficiency for landing and takeoff traffic.

The construction of new rapid exit taxiways helped in increasing flight handling capacity from 32 movements per hour to 44, resulting in the creation of 19 additional flight slots in its Winter 2012 schedule.