The Pune airport authorities are working with the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to clean airport premises and neighbourhood to prevent bird -hit incidents.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued an advisory on June 20 to airports on avoiding bird-strike incidents in the monsoon. The direction came after two such incidents on June 19 in different parts of the country — SpiceJet Boeing 737 Patna-Delhi flight and IndiGo A320 NEO Guwahati-Delhi flight.
The advisory was issued to all 137 airports, including those run by the defence.
At Pune airport, runway maintenance work, operation area along with air traffic control (ATC) comes under the IAF.
