In a major relief to air passengers who had been inconvenienced by scores of flight cancellations and diversions for the past four days, the main runway of Mumbai International Airport was re-opened for operations late on Friday afternoon.
The 3.66 km-main runway had been shut down shortly before midnight on Monday after a Spicejet aircraft arriving from Jaipur overshot the runway at the city airport.
In the interim period, Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd. (MIAL), which manages Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), used the secondary, shorter runway 14/32 (2.99 km-long) that crosses the main runway and cannot handle all types of aircraft
Ninety hours after it was shut down in the wake of Spicejet mishap, MIAL made available the primary runway 09/27 for normal operations from 1647 hrs on Friday.
