The 14-day closure of Pune Airport for runway resurfacing work introduced earlier won’t occur in April-Might this 12 months, officers with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) mentioned. The Indian Air Power had earlier introduced that it will likely be enterprise the runway resurfacing work between April 26 and Might 9 resulting from which all of the flight operations will stay suspended through the two-week interval.
Pune Airport is a civil enclave working from the IAF station of Lohegaon, the first perform of which is to coach IAF pilots by enterprise sortie operations. Though Pune is within the technique of growing its personal worldwide airport in Purandar, the problems pertaining to the land acquisition have delayed the graduation of labor.
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“The scheduled closure of flights won’t occur between April 26 and Might 9,” an AAI official mentioned. “IAF has conveyed to us that the runway resurfacing work can be carried out a later date,” added the official.
The resurfacing work began in October 2020 had already restricted the civil operations solely to the daytime. The airport stays shut for flights between 8 pm to eight am.
The closure – if it was to be undertaken – would have affected the transport of vaccines inside the nation. A lot of the home transport – from Pune to different states – occurs through Pune Airport whereas the worldwide dispatch is undertaken from Mumbai Airport. It’s not clear if the difficulty of vaccination transport performed any half within the determination to postpone the airport closure.