The Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, popularly known as the Lucknow airport, is all set to stop night flight operations from February 23 to July 11 to upgrade its existing runway. Officials gave this information on Sunday.
Officials further said that there will be no flight operations between 9.30 pm to 6 am during the time the airport remains closed. Lucknow airport will undertake expansion and upgradation of its existing runway (airside) to prepare for future challenges with increase in the number of passenger and cargo flows.
An airport spokesperson said, “During a period of four months, various construction activities will be conducted to upgrade the infrastructure at the airport including three new link taxiways, new ground lights for aircraft handling, runway end security area Includes. Sand and plane turning pad detail.”
“We have informed the airlines about the unavailability of the runway for 8.5 hours for the convenience of the passengers,” he added.
The airport received environment clearance from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to increase passenger handling capacity to 39 million per annum from the current 4.5 million and cargo handling capacity to 0.25 million tonnes per annum.
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