A partial closure of Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneswar for re-carpeting work scheduled to begin on Friday has been deferred for a month.
The runway re-carpeting work would be carried out in phases from December 1, informed the airport authorities. The airport would be partially shut from 10.30 pm to 5.30 am daily starting from December 1.
Now, there will be no change in the flight schedules till November 30.
Earlier, the authorities had stated that the runway would be shut in two phases for the re-carpeting work. Also, the parallel taxi track-joining work was in the plan during the runway shutdown period.
The last re-carpeting work of the airport had been carried out in 2007.