Mumbai airport shut for six hours, post-monsoon maintenance work complete

The Mumbai airport concluded its annual post-monsoon runway maintenance on Tuesday for which flight operations were suspended for six hours in the afternoon. “The maintenance work is part of the airport’s monsoon contingency plan, which has been devised to respond to and mitigate any possible issues that might have been caused during the monsoon season in the city,” said Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL). The Mumbai airport handles an average of 930 flights in 24 hours.