For recarpeting work, Lucknow runway to stay shut from 10 am to 6 pm for 4 months

“The CCSI Airport volition facilitate 132 ATMs (aircraft question movements) per time during the recarpeting. Certain formation schedules whitethorn beryllium adjusted, and passengers are advised to cheque with their respective airlines for immoderate updates oregon changes successful the formation schedule,” an airdrome authoritative said.

At present, the accustomed craft question movements per time astatine the Lucknow airdrome is 140.

“Almost 99 per cent of the flights would proceed their operations arsenic the upgradation enactment would beryllium carried retired from 10 americium to 6 pm,” said an official.

An authoritative connection issued by the airdrome said: “In bid to prioritise rider information and heighten the wide ratio of its operations, Chaudhary Charan Singh International (CCSI) Airport, managed by Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), volition commence the recarpeting of Runway 09/27… connected 1 March, 2025.”

“Having taken the runway closure into consideration, airlines volition run scheduled flights anterior to 1000 hours and aft 1800 hours for the duration of the recarpeting. During this period, the airdrome volition instrumentality a broad program to guarantee the continuity of services and to mitigate immoderate imaginable inconveniences to passengers and airlines,” it added.

Officials said that the 2,744-metre-long and 45-metre-wide bituminous runway, with an further 7.5 metres enarthrosis connected either broadside of the runway, was past recarpeted successful 2018. The scheduled recarpeting volition see “milling of the existing bituminous runway, followed by bituminous inlay and overlay” to conscionable the plan parameters successful enactment with standards specified by the regulator.

A full country of 1.80 lakh quadrate metres, which would see some the runway and taxiways, volition beryllium recarpeted, arsenic portion of the project. Officials said that the repairs person been conceptualized implicit the years to “improve texture, friction, profile, strength, operational efficiency”.

Further, to beryllium capable to supply faster introduction and exit of craft aft landing oregon take-off, from the runway, the CCSI airdrome volition conception a caller afloat magnitude parallel taxiway of 2,744 metres and an further taxiway.

Other upgradation works would see conversion of the Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) strategy to LED from halogen, aimed astatine redeeming 50 per cent of the energy astatine the airport, on with upgradation of airfield signage.

“The upgradation has been planned aft attaining anterior approvals from the regulatory authorities and the airlines person been intimated good successful beforehand truthful that they tin reschedule the flights accordingly,” said an official.