Mumbai’s oldest airport was at the receiving end of the rain God’s fury as operations at the Juhu airstrip was shut down following an overnight downpour on Friday. The operations were shut for the day and would remain so for the rest of the week if the monsoon continues to play truant, said officials of the Airport Authority of India (AAI). The losses have forced the Rotary Wing Society of India (RWSI) -- a Delhi-based non-profit organisation working towards promoting the civil and military helicopter industry in India -- to demand from the government that the airdrome be declared as ‘only for sea planes’ during the monsoon period.

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