Flight services at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport will be temporarily suspended for five hours on October 23 to enable the traditional “Arattu” procession of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple to pass through the runway. The ritual is in line with a decades-old practice involving the Travancore Royals.
In a social media post last week, the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL) said that flight services would be suspended from 4 pm to 9 pm on October 23 to facilitate the Alpassi Arattu procession.
