Mumbai airport to shut runways on October 17 for maintenance work
Mumbai airport on Friday said both its runways will remain temporarily closed for six hours on 17 October as part of the facility’s post-monsoon maintenance plan.
The airport noted that the primary objective of the scheduled runway closure was to undertake repair and maintenance activities. It said the annual post-monsoon maintenance was a part of the airport’s activities to ensure ‘operational continuity’ and ‘passenger safety’.
“As part of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport’s (CSMIA) comprehensive post-monsoon runway maintenance plan, both runways – RWY 09/27 and RWY 14/32 will be temporarily non-operational on 17 October 2023, from 1100 hrs to 1700 hrs,” a CSMIA spokesperson said in a statement.
