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Old Jan 2, 2009 | 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
What's DEL/DGCA doing wrong that the airport experiences major delays on foggy days despite claims that DEL is now CAT III equipped?
CAT III-B requires RVR50 visibility (may vary slightly per each airline's operating manuals) and visibility often drops even below these minima. Prolonged periods of sub-CAT III-B conditions at major airports worldwide are actually very very rare, and DEL comes to mind as the only one where this is a virtually daily occurance for almost 10-15% of the year.

The resources required to certify aircraft and pilots to CAT III-B are huge. These costs are not something that can easily be justified for a single station in a larger network as long as a viable option to divert/reschedule/cancel exists.
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