INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MUMBAI: No flights will depart or land at the Mumbai airport for six hours in the afternoon on October 17 as the cross-runway will be shut
for post-monsoon maintenance work, an annual practice.Both runways, 07-27 and 14-32, will be non-operational from 11 am to 5 pm, said Mumbai
International Airport ltd (MIAL) on Friday
Airmen (NOTAM)__notice to inform airlines, pilots and stakeholders, that is__ has also been duly issued in this regard six months in
advance."The primary objective of this scheduled temporary closure is to undertake repair and maintenance activities essential to uphold the
This yearly practice of runway maintenance post monsoons is part of the series of activities undertaken with precision and meticulous
beginning of the festive season next month, October 17 falls on a Tuesday, which has been the leanest day of the week for domestic air
Unlike Mumbai, airports of cities such as Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad have parallel runways and so can afford to keep a runway operational
and the airport running when carrying out such annual maintenance works
