Air India re-schedules flights at Chennai

Chennai: Air India has re-scheduled its international flights to and from Chennai since the Airports Authority of India (AAI) will be closing the main runway for six hours everyday from July 1 to September 15 to facilitate construction of linkways.
The linkways are being constructed to connect the secondary runway with the main one to enhance the airport's aircraft-handling capacity. The main runway will be closed from 11 am to 5 pm everyday as workers will be using machinery close to it. The runway will be used for flight operations the rest of the time.
A senior AAI official said that more airlines had agreed to re-schedule their flights before work began. The closure period was chosen because there wouldn't be many flight movements then, he added. A couple of international flights would be operated on the secondary runway with load restrictions.
An AI official said there would not be much change in the timings of domestic flights which would be operated from the secondary runway with load restrictions. Besides, most of the domestic flights were scheduled before 11 am and after 5 pm, he added.
28/06/09 Times of India

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