Flight services at the international airport here would be temporarily suspended for five hours on Monday to enable the traditional “Arattu” procession of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple to pass through the runway, TIAL said. The ritual is in line with a decades-old practice involving the Travancore Royals.
The Thiruvananthapuram International Airport Ltd (TIAL) said flight services would be suspended from 4 pm to 9 pm to facilitate the Alpassi Arattu procession by the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple. The services of four flights have been rescheduled due to the ceremony, the airport said.
After the procession returns to the temple, the tarmac would be cleaned and inspected and only after that the flight services would resume, it said.
