Mumbai: Critical runway maintenance and repair work that has been under way at Mumbai airport since February 7 is set to end this Saturday, allowing for smoother landings and takeoffs, along with the restoration of 230 cancelled flights.
The nearly ₹100-crore project work involved recarpetting the critical 50,000 sq. mt. intersection of the two runways with bitumin. The last time such an elaborate exercise was carried out was in 2009-10. “A resurfaced runway depending on factors like jet blast, weathering action, rubber deposits etc will last 7 to 8 years,” officials of Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL) said during a media tour of the runway intersection area. Similarly, MIAL had earlier carried out preservation of the runway surface by applying airport-grade sealguard technology from the US in 2016.
Officials of MIAL and Asphault India Corporation, which is carrying out the resurfacing works explained that the integrity of runway surfaces is assured by regular inspections. A team of 600 workers work as per a well planned exercise to ensure that the work in hand is completed within the available 6 hour window period between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
29/03/19 Aditya Anand/The Hindu
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The nearly ₹100-crore project work involved recarpetting the critical 50,000 sq. mt. intersection of the two runways with bitumin. The last time such an elaborate exercise was carried out was in 2009-10. “A resurfaced runway depending on factors like jet blast, weathering action, rubber deposits etc will last 7 to 8 years,” officials of Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL) said during a media tour of the runway intersection area. Similarly, MIAL had earlier carried out preservation of the runway surface by applying airport-grade sealguard technology from the US in 2016.
Officials of MIAL and Asphault India Corporation, which is carrying out the resurfacing works explained that the integrity of runway surfaces is assured by regular inspections. A team of 600 workers work as per a well planned exercise to ensure that the work in hand is completed within the available 6 hour window period between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
29/03/19 Aditya Anand/The Hindu
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