KATHMANDU: Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) will remain closed for 10 hours starting Monday.  Nepal’s only one international airport is going to be closed due to its runway up-gradation, reported Nagarik daily.

It will remain closed from Monday 10 pm until 8 am Tuesday and so on until the repair work will be over.

According to TIA sources, the runaway repair will be over by May 28 and that the airport will open as usual from May 29.

The TIA, which had been constructed in 1997, has a 3,000-meter-long runaway.