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First Test Flight Conducted At Goa’s New Mopa Airport

by Shreya Ghosh
First Test Flight Conducted At Goa’s New Mopa Airport

This Monday was a very significant day for Goa’s upcoming Mopa airport. The new international airport underwent a test flight and the results were successful. This was the day when the airport completed the Required Navigation Performance from its runway. With the conduct of the first test flight under the supervision of the officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the results came out great.

First Test Flight Conducted At The Mopa Airport

The test was conducted on an Airbus A320 aircraft of Indigo Airlines on Mopa’s runaway. GMR Airports Limited subsidiary is working on constructing this greenfield airport. GMR Airports Ltd holds the tender to design, develop, finance, and run the airport. The Chief Minister of Goa, Dr. Pramod Sawant uploaded a video of the test flight on his official Twitter account with the caption, ‘First Trial Landing at the #MopaInternationalAirport. As a part of testing protocol, today a commercial flight of Indigo Airlines A320 aircraft, which came from Mumbai onboard DGCA officials, successfully landed at Mopa Airport new runway’.

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When Will It Start Operating?

The construction period of the Mopa airport took a lot of time due to quite a few delays in between. The work started in August 2016 and the plan suggested completing the development in 36 months, within 2019 or 2020. But things did not work accordingly. First, the timing was delayed as Supreme Court granted a stay because of some environmental issues. It delayed the project by over 1 year. The estimated deadline after that was decided by the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022.

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Later, it was said that the operations will start in August 2022. And now Goa’s Chief Minister said that the construction will end by the end of 2022 or the initial months of 2023. Mopa will provide services to passengers on both domestic and international journeys. This is going to be the second international airport in Goa, the first being the Goa International Airport in Dabolim.