Mumbai, October 23: The Mumbai Airport will remain shut for six hours on Tuesday for repair and maintenance work. According to a tweet by ANI, the repair work on the intersection will be done from 1100 hrs (11 AM) to 1700 hrs (5 PM) today at Mumbai Airport. Several flights have been rescheduled. Passengers departing and arriving at Mumbai Airport may face a tough time on Tuesday as both the main and secondary runways will remain shut for operations for six hours.

Earlier this month, the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) had informed that both the runways 09/27 and 14/32 will remain shut for operations between 11 am and 5 pm on October 23. The Mumbai airport has planed the runway maintenance and repair work in two phases between October, and February-March. During this period, as many as 300 flights per day are likely to be affected. Mumbai Airport Records Highest Traffic in a Single Day With Flight Movement of 1003 Aircraft.

On Monday, national carrier Air India informed about the repair work in a tweet."Mumbai airport runway will be closed from 1100 hours to 1700 hours IST. Please visit Air India website, app or contact call centre for details on rescheduled and cancelled flights," Air India tweeted. Mumbai Airport Authority Caught A Passenger With US Dollars Worth Rs 1 Crore.

#FlyAI : #MumbaiAirport #runway will be closed on 23rd October from 1100 - 1700 hrs IST. Please visit airindia website , app or contact call centre for details on rescheduled & cancelled flights . pic.twitter.com/3vePwLOu51 — Air India (@airindiain) October 22, 2018

The airport handles about 1,000 flights a day on an average. Reports inform that in the second phase, the maintenance and repair work on the intersection will be carried out between February 7 and March 30 (except on March 21) from 11 AM to 5 PM on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Mumbai airport, with two crossing runways – 09/27 (the main) and 14/32 (the secondary runway) – is the main hub of full service carrier Jet Airways and budget airline GoAir.

In June this year, the Mumbai airport crossed 1,000 aircraft movements in a day for the first time, breaking its earlier record of 988 single-day arrivals and departures. In FY18, the single-runway operated Mumbai airport handled 48.49 million passengers, thus registering a 7.4 per cent growth this year over FY17.

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