{"id":440736,"date":"2021-10-07T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440736"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:45:52","slug":"as-flyers-express-discontent-iaf-says-pune-airport-closure-was-inescapable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-flyers-express-discontent-iaf-says-pune-airport-closure-was-inescapable\/","title":{"rendered":"As flyers express discontent, IAF says Pune airport closure was \u2018inescapable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUNE Under criticism for shutting down Pune\u2019s Lohegaon airport for 14 days starting October 16, in the middle of the festive season and on very short notice, the Indian Air Force (IAF), on Wednesday, said the move was \u201cinescapable\u201d and airline officials were informed about tentative dates in advance. <\/p>\n<p>According to an announcement, Lohegaon airport, which is currently only operating during the day, since will remain completely shut from October 16-29, due to the runway being re-carpeted. The 14-day complete closure was earlier planned from April 26 till May 9, but had to be deferred.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement IAF said, \u201cTo address the issue of the rapidly deteriorating condition of the runway and associated operating surfaces at Air Force Station Pune, runway resurfacing was an urgent requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNE Under criticism for shutting down Pune\u2019s Lohegaon airport for 14 days starting October 16, in the middle of the festive season and on very short notice, the Indian Air Force (IAF), on Wednesday, said the move was \u201cinescapable\u201d and airline officials were informed about tentative dates in advance. According to an announcement, Lohegaon airport, which is currently only operating during the day, since will remain completely shut from October 16-29, due to the runway being re-carpeted. The 14-day complete closure was earlier planned from April 26 till May 9, but had to be deferred. In its statement IAF said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440736","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}