Bhubaneswar, Sept. 17 -- Plans of several air travellers from Odisha could get affected as flight operations from Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneswar is likely to be partially suspended for eight long months.
The flight services are likely to be rescheduled as the re-carpeting work of the airport's runway will be taken up from November. The re-carpeting of the runway is a regular maintenance work which is done every 10 years. The re-carpeting of the runway was last taken up at Biju Patnaik airport in 2007.
Bhubaneswar Airport Director, Suresh Chandra Hota informed that as the re-carpeting work of main runway will be taken up, we have decided to close the airport from 10:30 PM to 5:30 AM from November 1, 2019 to March ...