Mumbai: The country's largest domestic airline, IndiGo, on Thursday said the airline has been forced to make a substantial number of cancellations and diversions of its flights to and from Mumbai airport due to closure of the main runway since 1 July. "The effect was that aircraft had to be diverted to different places due to the ongoing Mumbai main runway closure and needed to be recovered to put it in the right rotational sequence. A source with direct knowledge of the matter, requesting anonymity, said the main runway was likely to be operational only by Thursday-midnight or after. The main runway at Mumbai airport handles up to 48 flights an hour while the secondary runway handles up to 35 flights an hour. Due to the unavailability of the main runway, all flight operations are being conducted from the secondary runway, which has resulted in massive flight cancellations and delays.

Source: Mint July 04, 2019 12:00 UTC