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The Navi Mumbai Airport in Maharashtra is expected to be inaugurated by 2020. “We hope the airport will be ready by late 2019 or early 2020,” said Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of the state, while speaking at the Global Aviation Summit in Mumbai. Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, said that Nagpur would soon be developed as a global maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) hub in India. He was also speaking at the summit. The Navi Mumbai International Airport is being developed under a public-private partnership (PPP) model between GVK Group subsidiary Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) and City and ... Read more

തിരക്കില്‍ നട്ടംതിരിയുന്ന മുംബൈ വിമാനത്താവളം ചൊവ്വാഴ്ച 1,003 വിമാനസര്‍വീസുകള്‍ കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്തു റെക്കോര്‍ഡ് തിരുത്തി. ഒറ്റ ദിവസം 988 വിമാന സര്‍വീസുകള്‍ കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്തതായിരുന്നു മുന്‍ റെക്കോര്‍ഡ്. കഴിഞ്ഞ സാമ്പത്തിക വര്‍ഷം മുംബൈ വിമാനത്താവളം ഉപയോഗിച്ചത് 48.49 ദശലക്ഷം യാത്രക്കാര്‍. തൊട്ടുമുന്‍പത്തെ വര്‍ഷത്തേക്കാള്‍ 7.4% വര്‍ധനയാണിത്.

The Mumbai international airport has broke its own world record of handling most flight movements in 24 hours. The airport, which is the busiest single runway airport in the world, handled 1,003 flights in a single days. The previous record held by the Mumbai airport handled landing and departure of 980 flights in February this year. London’s Gatwick airport is the distant second on the list with over 800 flight movements per day. The sudden upsurge in the number of flights operating from the Mumbai airport could be attributed to a storm on Monday. Many flights were spilled over to Tuesday ... Read more