Six-hour runway closure from today at Chennai

Chennai: The main runway at Chennai Airport will remain closed -11am to 5pm- from Wednesday. A notice to this effect was issued a month ago to all airlines, which were expected to restructure their schedules or use the secondary runway with limited capacity.
About 10 Air India flights and 15 Jet Airways flight have been rescheduled owing to this renovation.
“On long haul flights, carriers cannot take more than 40-45 passengers against a capacity of 145,and even the cargo has to be reduced depending on the passenger load,” said an airline operator.
The runway expansion work is expected to go on till September 15 when only the secondary runway will be operational during the day.

01/07/09 ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports Jul 2009