Pune Airport To Keep Closed For 14 Days Beginning Nowadays

Pune:

Pune airport will stay closed for fourteen days from October 16 to October 29 to finish the runway resurfacing paintings.

“Flight operations will stay utterly closed from the next day until October 29 and it is going to resume from October 30,” Pune Airport Director Santosh Dhoke informed ANI.

Indian Air Drive (IAF), which manages the runway operations, mentioned that because of unexpectedly deteriorating situation of the runway and related working sufaces on the Air Drive Station, Pune, the runway resurfacing had grow to be pressing.

Partial closure of the runway used to be completed for 12 hours day-to-day all over night time from October 26, 2020 to October 25, 2021 for the works, with a view to motive the least disturbance to civil aviation.

“A 14-day whole closure used to be deliberate from April 26 until Might 9, 2021 to adopt the resurfacing of the central bitumen portion of the runway. On the other hand, because of emergent requirement of delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, The Ministry of Defence had directed to defer all the closure of runway,” IAF observation mentioned.

It mentioned that the closure of the airport used to be deliberate for 3rd and fourth week of October.

“The precise dates of closure from October 16 to October 29 2021 may well be promulgated best after the needful approvals have been got from the Ministry of Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare and The Ministry of Defence. As in step with the prevailing plan, flight operations would resume from October 30 2021, prior to the Diwali pageant,” the observation mentioned.

It mentioned that all over the duration of whole closure of the runway, IAF will ensure that airlift of vaccines from Pune to Mumbai via deploying appropriate property to make sure uninterrupted provide chain.