Thiruvananthapuram: Flight administrations at the worldwide air terminal here would be briefly suspended for five hours on Monday to empower the conventional “Arattu” parade of Sree Padmanabhaswamy sanctuary to go through the runway, TIAL said. The custom is in accordance with a decades-old work on including the Travancore Royals.
The Thiruvananthapuram Global Air terminal Ltd (TIAL) said flight administrations would be suspended from 4 pm to 9 pm to work with the Alpassi Arattu parade by the Sree Padmanabhaswamy sanctuary.
The administrations of four flights have been rescheduled because of the function, the air terminal said.
After the parade gets back to the sanctuary, the landing area would be cleaned and examined and solely after that the flight administrations would continue, it said.
The air terminal has been stopping activities and rescheduling flights two times consistently for a really long time to empower the semiannual exceptionally old stately parade of the sanctum to go through the runway.
The act of the sanctuary parade passing along the course to arrive at the Shangumugham ocean side for the blessed shower of the icons started hundreds of years prior and it has been proceeding with even after the foundation of the air terminal in 1932.
At the point when the air terminal was developed in the specific spot, the then Travancore Ruler Sree Chithira Thirunal had clarified that the office would be available to the general population for 363 days in a year and for two days for Master Padmanabha, the nominal god of the imperial family, as per students of history.
