Mumbai airport begins a major upgrade today. One of the Mumbai airport runway to remain cloased for 6 hours today for maintenance.

The runway will stay closed for 6 hours on every Tuesday starting today for next 22 weeks. Maintenance will continue till 8th of March on 2010.  Over 100 flights is set to be effected by this maintenance. This maintenance will increase the flights handling capacity of the airport.

Jet Airways and Jetlite has already announced rescheduling of its to and fro flights for Tuesdays from Mumbai Airport.