Demand Management at Congested Airport in India.

Congestion of Airport Brings to bear the need to manage Airport capacity more efficiently in order to meet the increasing demand for air transport. Whether this is achieved by increasing airport capacity or utilizing available capacity more efficiently, the inevitable increase in air traffic the world is facing will result in the need to manage effectively the allocation of slot at airport and protection of the environment. Congestion at airport leads to delay in arrivals and departure at airports, due to this flights cannot be started or completed on time as waiting in a queue to their turns for takeoff or landings or any other operations. This paper describes the congestion problem at Chhatarpati Shivaji international Airport(CSIA) Mumbai India, gives the mathematical expression to calculate average arriving delay per aircraft. Also gives capacity analysis.