Flight tasks at the Pune air terminal will stay suspended during night for a year. Purportedly, all flights that are booked between 8 PM and 8 AM at Pune’s Lohegaon Airport will presently be rescheduled during the day, as the Indian Airforce will begin re-covering the runway from October 26.
Alluding to this, Pune Airport Director Kuldip Singh said that since work has been intended to be done during night, the runway will stay shut for flight activities for practically throughout the year.
According to the most recent reports, regardless of the fractional resumption of homegrown flights, the Pune air terminal has seen not exactly 33% of traveler traffic when contrasted with pre-pandemic levels. Further clarifying how COVID 19 affected air travel radically, chief Singh included that in 2018-19, the air terminal saw a traveler footfall of 9 million during the pinnacle time, while in Jan-Feb 2020, the footfall of travelers dropped to only 2000-3000. He included that until September, the air terminal has seen around 1.63 lakh travelers and 1948 flights worked from Pune.
An authority aware of everything how included that around 26 evening flights have been moved to daytime spaces. The expanding number of flights have made the development of another terminal and runway extension compulsory.
Then, Airports Authority of India (AAI) expressed that remembering the developing traffic from Pune, AAI’s Pune Airport has begun chipping away at a Multi-Level Car Parking (MLCP), including two cellars and transcending ground floo. It will in future encourage the movement of individuals and furthermore add to air terminal offices.
Further, both homegrown and global flights work from the Pune air terminal, particularly to West Asia.
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