Two days a week, Chennai airport will be closed for 90 min

Chennai: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided to close the secondary runway for ten months, starting January 6, to raise the level of the runway with that of the extended portion across the Adyar river and to build a box-culvert-type bridge across the river. AAI will also extend the 2,035-metre secondary runway by 1,400 metres across the river as part of the expansion plan.
With the airport being able to use only one runway during the period, it will lead to a complete shutdown of the airport for one-and-a-half hours on Tuesdays and Saturdays for three months when maintenance work will take place on the main runway.
"To undertake routine maintenance work, the main runway shall be closed on Tuesday and Saturday between 2.30pm and 4pm on January 9 and it will continue till March 2010", said E P Hareendranathan, who took over as airport director on Monday.
To minimise disruption of aircraft movement, AAI has reduced the closure period of the main runway from two hours a day for three days to one-and-half hours a day for two days.
24/12/09 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Dec 2009