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Calicut airport to be partially closed

Staff Reporter

Kozhikode: Operation of flights from the Calicut International Airport between 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. will be suspended for a year from April 1 owing to "strengthening and recarpeting" works of the three-kilometre runway.

Airport Director R. Veeraswamy told The Hindu here on Tuesday that the work necessitated the closure of the runway for at least eight hours every day.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) in coordination with different airline companies had finalised that the work be carried out regularly between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. from April 1 to March 31, 2008.

The timings had been selected so that there would be little disturbance to the arrival and departure of the passengers as well as the movement of aircraft, he said.

As of now 246 flights, including eight cargo flights, operate from the Calicut International Airport every week. Most of the flights operate either before or after the restricted period.

The existing schedules of some of the flights, which arrived at the airport before 7 a.m., would be delayed by 15 minutes to half an hour.

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