Goa’s upcoming international airport at Mopa efficiently done a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) on Monday with the landing and take-off of the first commercial plane from its runway, officials said. Once operational, it will be the second global airport in Goa after the one in Dabolim.
The much delayed airport was once in the beginning anticipated to be done inside 36 months of the work order being passed over, which took area in August 2016, that means that the airport was once to be finished someday in 2019-2020. However, the venture was delayed–initially after a remain was once granted by means of the Supreme Court owing to environmental concerns which led to a extend with the aid of extra than a year, and was once given a fresh timeline to be done “somewhere between the end of 2021 and early 2022”.
