Mumbai: Passengers departing and arriving at the Mumbai city airport may face a tough time on Tuesday as both the main and secondary runways will remain shut for operations for six hours. For repair and maintenance, the work will start at 11 am. Due to the repair work, several flights have been rescheduled. Mumbai airport, which has runways 09/27 and 14/32, will undertake runway maintenance and repair in two phases between October, and February-March period. The authorities had earlier informed about the maintenance work three months ago.  The move is likely to affect as many as many as 300 flights per day during the period.

"Mumbai airport runway will be closed from 1100 hours to 1700 hours IST. Please visit Air India website, app or contact call centre for details on rescheduled and cancelled flights," national carrier Air India informed its passengers through a tweet Monday.

Due to the work, both the runways 09/27 and 14/32 will remain shut for operations between 11 am and 5 pm on October 23, Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) had said earlier on October 4.

In the second phase, the maintenance and repair work on the intersection will be carried out between February 7 and March 30 (except on March 21) from 11 am to 5 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

While the primary runway can handle up to 50 arrivals and departures an hour against the declared capacity of 46, the secondary runway has a capacity of 35 flight movements an hour. The airport handles about 1,000 flights a day on an average.

(additional input from agencies)