Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport will be thoroughly servicing its runway, in a gradual process that is estimated to take about three years.
This comes after the airport briefly shut down in May for runway maintenance (disrupting over 80 flights), while additional runway patching forced a flight to Bali to circle around the island just last month.
The new agenda was announced shortly after the airport got a new general manager. Yanus Suprayogi has just taken Trikora Harjo’s place as GM of the airport.
After the handover, Suprayogi told media on Thursday that the asphalt on the runaway needs to be thickened, but the process can only be done incrementally.
“It takes three years because we cannot just halt airport operations,” Suprayogi explained, as quoted by Antara Bali.
In addition to getting the runway in tip-top shape, Suprayogi says there’s also a development plan in the works for aircraft parking to accommodate more fleets.
