Upon commissioning of the parallel taxiway on the south side, the airport’s flight handling capacity will be doubled from eight per hour to 16. Taxiway is the stretch or the track connecting the runway with the apron (parking stand for aircraft). MIA has one taxiway at present used for both entry and exit of aircraft from the runway. At present, the airport handles about 50 aircraft a day — 25 arrivals and 25 departures — at the rate of eight per hour. Phase I of parallel taxiway increases the handling capacity by four more aircraft per hour and phase 2 by another four aircraft.

Source: The Hindu February 19, 2017 18:00 UTC