Repairs on Nov.1 will affect 9,000 passengers
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/31
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A total of 60 flights carrying 9,000 passengers will feel the
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport’s south runway to be closed from 00:00 a.m. until 4 p.m. Nov.1. (By Central News Agency)
impact of the closure of the south runway at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport from 12:00 a.m. until 4 p.m. Wednesday November 1.
The shutdown has become necessary because airport management wants to have cracks in the runway repaired as quickly as possible, even though they do not pose an immediate threat to aircraft landing or taking off there.
The north runway, which will remain open all through the works, can handle 30 flights per hour, according to a report by the Central News Agency, but still an estimated 9,000 travelers were likely to be affected, so anyone with a flight booked for November 1 should look out for notifications from their airline.
The problem with cracks occurred less than two years after the last major work on the same runway, which led to its opening for service in January 2016. In the latest incident, cracks several meters long and up to 2 millimeters wide appeared, possibly due to recent heavy rain. [FULL STORY]
