The Chandigarh International Airport will remain closed till September 18 from 11 pm to 4.30 am for the installation of lights at the runway.
No flights will be affected as they don’t operate during the night hours, said the chief executive officer (CEO) of the airport Ajay Bhardwaj. The work is ongoing and we hope that we can finish it in a month, he said.
He added that at present, there are 32 flights operating and the footfall has increased to 5,400 per day from 3,000.
In April 2019, round-the-clock operations began at the airport, allowing the landing of wide-bodied aircraft including Boeing 787-800 (Dreamliner) and Airbus 330. But, even after more than two years, no big aircraft are in the pipeline.
