Flooded Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) announced on Wednesday that the operations will resume on August 29, three days later than the scheduled opening on August 26. The decision was taken after a meeting with various stakeholders, including airlines and ground handling agencies on Wednesday. CIAL issued a statement saying the opening of the Kochi airport had to be postponed after a review of the situation.
“A meeting was held at CIAL today to review the damage control activities at Kochi airport, wherein most of the stake-holders including airlines and ground handling agencies expressed their concerns over mobilising manpower,” said the CIAL statement, adding 90 percent of their staffers got affected with the flood and were out of the station.
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In view of these apprehensions, CIAL said, it decided to postpone the date of resuming operations by three more days. “We will be starting all operations at 1400 hours in 29/08/2018,” reads the statement.
The heavy rains and floods have damaged the radar, navigation system, runway and passenger amenities and security equipment in the terminal building. Airport officials said that the losses are estimated to be at Rs 250 crore.
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