Ahmedabad: When air traffic peaks in summer due to holiday rush, maintenance work at the SVP international airport may disrupt the travel plans of Amdavadis from April to June.
Business travel will be hit the most because airport authorities plan to partially close the runway for carpeting between 10.30am and 5pm everyday from April 1. Airport authorities say schedules of many Mumbai- and Delhi-bound flights will be changed. Flight operations will be fully suspended at Ahmedabad airport between May 15 and June 15 from 10.30 am to 5pm. Last year, the airport witnessed an average of 106 flights daily from April to December.
Authorities told TOI that during this period a major part of the 3,599-metre runway will be carpeted. "The runway will be shut down for six hours daily. Initially, around 10 flights will be rescheduled. We have held meetings with airline operators and have asked them to announce the details of rescheduled flights so that those getting affected can plan accordingly," said Ahmedabad airport director Anuj Aggarwal.
20/03/11 Ankur Jain/Times of India
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