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. “This scheduled temporary closure is a part of CSMIA’s annual post monsoon preventive maintenance plan,” it said adding that a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM)__notice to inform airlines, pilots and stakeholders, that is__ has also been duly issued in this regard six months in advance.
