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by Arushi Madan | 29-01-2014 21:20
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Dear Tunza Friends, This is something interesting and serious enough to act upon by concerned authorities. Key airports which are considered as hub like Dubai airport , London Heathrow airport , even Mumbai airport contribute to increase in carbon footprint due to inability to give landing clearance because of congestion. It is very common these days for aircraft to circulate in sky (awaiting landing clearance at destination airport) and burn fuel especially at peak times as slot congestion rises. This has to do with capacity constraints amid increasing growth. The Dubai airport handled 50.98 million passengers last year, up 8% on 2010. It's a bigger problem when pilot is flying an A380 around for half an hour waiting to land, that's a considerable add-on cost (fuel cost) and increase in carbon footprint. There has been a rapid rise in demand for airspace capacity in the past five years, which has led to congestion at Dubai International during peak periods. Evenings and early mornings tend to be the busiest times as flights criss-cross from Asia and Europe, although many flights operate in the middle of the night. Authorities are aware of this and are tackling the issue at multiple levels. In the meantime, Dubai Airports is engaging with various stakeholder to ensure air routes are decongested, bottlenecks are reduced and latent airspace capacity - much of UAE airspace is reserved for military use - is unlocked. It really hurts to realize that fuel cost is wasted , air is polluted and carbon footprint is increasing till the authorities find solution to optimize the airspace. |
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9 Comments
Greetings arushi
I hope you are doing well
Nice report
Thank you so much for your report
Keep writing
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 26-05-2020 11:00
Thank you for pointing it out, Arushi. It seems to be needed a solution...
Posted 03-02-2014 16:40
The fossil fuel is anyway not going to last forever, must not be wasted like this.
Posted 31-01-2014 18:10
Very informative.Thanks for updating and raising concern.
Posted 31-01-2014 02:29
New problems are arising everyday. Increased pollution due to congestion, can't believe it.
Posted 30-01-2014 20:41
This is colossal wastage. I hope Dubai will reduce it.
Posted 30-01-2014 18:23
This is one of the concerns that many foreigners and global citizens deal with when they travel overseas. In fact, as a Korean immigrant to the Philippines, I have been constantly encountering and dealing with this problem whenever I visit my home country. The airplane just circulate in the sky,waiting for the land clearance. So, it often delayed the destination time. This is not only inconvenient, but also indeed increases the CO2 emissions, as more fuels are wasted. Thank you for sharing a concern. We should really come up with a healthy and sustainable method to prevent this from happening frequently.
Posted 30-01-2014 11:32
nice report...full of facts and figures ...eye opener!!!
Posted 30-01-2014 02:10
A problem not much cared of. Thanks for highlighting it and i do hope solutions will come up soon and in a sustainable way.
Posted 29-01-2014 23:03