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Operations at Mumbai airport to be hit from Tuesday

Operations will be partly hit between 18-31 October for a week on alternate days, as the main runway (Runway No. 09-27) will be closed for surface repair

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has only one runway (as one-third of the airport land is occupied by slum squatters), yet it manages around 50 flights during peak hours. Photo:Premium
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has only one runway (as one-third of the airport land is occupied by slum squatters), yet it manages around 50 flights during peak hours. Photo:

Mumbai: Passengers flying in and out of the nation’s financial capital, Mumbai should brace for long delays from Tuesday till the end of November as the only runway of the nation’s second busiest airport will be shut for five hours for repair work.

Last time the airport, operated by the GVK Group, was shut for similar repair work in November 2010. Months after the spanking new terminal-T2 over 12,000-crore was opened in February.

Operations will be partly hit between 18-31 October for four hours between 1200 hrs and 1600 hrs for seven days on alternate days, as the main runway (Runway No. 09-27) will be closed for surface repair. But the secondary runway (14-32) will be open during these hours, an MIAL (Mumbai International Airport Ltd) official told PTI. But operations will be completely shut for five hours from 1200 hrs to 1700 hrs in the second phase beginning 31 October through 28 November as both the main and the secondary runways will be closed, the official said, adding this is needed as the repair work involves inter-section work.

In total between 31 October and 28 November, both the runways will be closed for five hours on Mondays and Thursdays, while in the first phase the main runway will be closed for four hours on seven days, the official said.

The impact will be for nine days in November in the second phase of closure.

Notably, the second busiest airport in the country, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has only one runway (as one-third of the airport land is occupied by slum squatters), yet it manages around 50 flights during peak hours, making it one of the most efficient airports in the world in terms of aircraft handling.

On an average, the city airport handles over 800 flights a day. Against this the Delhi airport, with three runways handles around 78 flights during peak hours. “The runways—09-27 main and 14-32—will remain closed between 1200 hrs and 1700 hrs on Mondays and Thursdays till 28 November, to conduct ‘preventive runway surface work’, a technology to fill in gaps on the runway," MIAL had said in an earlier statement last month wherein it advised airlines to reschedule their operations.

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Published: 16 Oct 2016, 04:35 PM IST
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