Major airlines insist flights will run on schedule despite 6-hr airport shutdown today

For six hours beginning 12 pm today, the secondary Runway-1432 at the Mumbai airport will be completely shut and the main runway 0927 will be partially shut to complete ongoing reconstruction work.

Yet, major airlines like Air India, Jet Airways and Go Air claim their services will not be affected. In fact, Kingfisher is the only airline that admitted their flights would be rescheduled.

The reality, sources say, is different airlines do not want to acknowledge that flights may have to be cancelled today, as they fear passengers may want a refund on their tickets.

The company that runs the airport, Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) will continue to shut these runways on all Tuesdays till March.

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