KOCHI: The four-month-long closure of Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) during day-time, which will continue till next month-end, has unsettled the travel plans of frequent fliers, especially those who are flying to or from other Indian cities. The airport at Nedumbassery has been closed from 10 am to 6 pm since November 30 last year for re-carpeting work of the runways. The re-carpeting is mandatory after every 10 years, CIAL officials explained.<\/p>\n
Fliers and travel agents said the closure from eight hours during the day time could have been shortened to avoid the hassles faced by the passengers. The daytime closure has badly affected the fliers from\/to other Indian cities. \u201cYou need to pack up early, sometimes as early as 3 am or the next option is to wait till evening,\u201d said a frequent flier on Kochi-Bengaluru sector. Added another person, who is based in Jaipur: \u201cNot just the timings, even the ticket prices from Jaipur have more doubled to Kochi in the last few months. The rescheduling of flights or decline in the number of flights to Kochi may be the reason,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KOCHI: The four-month-long closure of Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) during day-time, which will continue till next month-end, has unsettled the travel plans of frequent fliers, especially those who are flying to or from other Indian cities. The airport at Nedumbassery has been closed from 10 am to 6 pm since November 30 last year for re-carpeting work of the runways. The re-carpeting is mandatory after every 10 years, CIAL officials explained. Fliers and travel agents said the closure from eight hours during the day time could have been shortened to avoid the hassles faced by the passengers. The daytime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}