The Mumbai airport has asked airlines to work out plans to shift international traffic equivalent to five million passengers annually to Navi Mumbai International Airport, as it prepares to redevelop Terminal 1 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA).
In a meeting with the Airline Operators Committee (AOC) on Wednesday, the airport said IndiGo, Air India and Akasa Air have finalised plans to move international operations accounting for around three million passengers annually to Navi Mumbai. The operator has asked airlines to submit plans for the remaining traffic by November 3. CSMIA currently handles around 55 million passengers annually. MIAL said the temporary shift would leave about 91 per cent of existing traffic unaffected, while redevelopment of Terminals 1 and 2 is expected to raise the airport’s capacity to 65 million passengers a year. The airport operator has cited structural audit reports by Structwel in 2017 and IIT Bombay in 2024 to underline the urgency of the Terminal 1 project, which it said has been delayed by more than nine years.
MIAL also told airlines that the temporary traffic reduction had already been factored into the approved tariff order following stakeholder consultations. (Disclaimer: New Delhi Television is a subsidiary of AMG Media Networks Limited, an Adani Group Company.)
