Air passengers should brace for delays and disruptions, as Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital and Mumbai will close their runways for maintenance at different periods starting next month and stretching through the first quarter of 2019.
IGIA's one of the runways will be closed for repair work for 13 days starting November 15, according to a communication. The airport, operated by DIAL, is the busiest aerodrome in the country and has three runways.
Runway 27/09 would be closed for "preventive repairs" next month while two other runways -- 11/29 and 10/28 -- would be operational.
The airport handled 63.5 million