If you are booked on a flight that is scheduled to depart or land at Mumbai airport on Monday evening, it would be advisable to find out the flight status before leaving for the airport.
The airport will be shut down for flights between noon and 5pm to carry out runway maintenance work. Airlines and pilots have been informed in advance about the scheduled closure and flight timings have been accordingly changed or some flights cancelled. But the closure is expected to have an effect on the evening flight schedule, what with air traffic congestion expected post-5pm, said an air traffic controller.
Monday's closure will be the first of the many partial or complete closures that the Mumbai airport will witness in November. Going by the flights it handles in the afternoon, a total of over 1,600 flights, most of them domestic, are expected to be hit. The maintenance work, which began on October 18, will end by the last week of November and on several days, the runway will be closed in the afternoon. An airport official said that work on preservation of runway surface will be carried out.
30/10/16 The Times Of india
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The airport will be shut down for flights between noon and 5pm to carry out runway maintenance work. Airlines and pilots have been informed in advance about the scheduled closure and flight timings have been accordingly changed or some flights cancelled. But the closure is expected to have an effect on the evening flight schedule, what with air traffic congestion expected post-5pm, said an air traffic controller.
Monday's closure will be the first of the many partial or complete closures that the Mumbai airport will witness in November. Going by the flights it handles in the afternoon, a total of over 1,600 flights, most of them domestic, are expected to be hit. The maintenance work, which began on October 18, will end by the last week of November and on several days, the runway will be closed in the afternoon. An airport official said that work on preservation of runway surface will be carried out.
30/10/16 The Times Of india
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