All About Mumbai Airport

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport


(IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB), formerly Sahar International Airport, is an airport in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. RIAF Santacruz was a defence airfield of the Royal Indian Airforce RIAF during World War 2 and was entrusted in the 1950s (after India gained independence from Britain) to the Public Works Department, and subsequently the Civil Aviation Ministry of the Government of India. It was named after the suburb of Santacruz where the airfield was located. Santacruz Airport long remained the name well into the 1980s until the new international terminal went into operation at nearby Andheri. Even today, the domestic terminals 1-A and 1-B are commonly known as Santacruz airport.
The airport, spread notionally over an operational area of 1450 acres (but actually as low as 1000 acres), serves as India's biggest international and domestic hub. Besides, it serves the metropolitan area of the city of Mumbai and the terminals are physically located in the suburbs of Santacruz and Sahar. The airport was formerly known as Sahar International Airport as it was located in the then village of Sahar in the suburb of Andheri. It was recently renamed after the 17th century Maratha Emperor, Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonsle.



The New Phase
In line with its vision of making the Mumbai Airport, Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd. (MIAL), the joint venture between GVK-SA consortium and THE Airports Authority of India, has a master plan for Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The master plan has been designed to expand and upgrade the infrastructure at CSIA to cater to traffic of 40 million passengers and one million tonnes of cargo annually. It encapsulates a blueprint for a major transformation of the airport by 2010.
The project cost till 2010 will be Rs. 5,200 crore, which is to be financed through a debt-equity mix of 80:20. The debt is being tied up with Indian institutions led by UTI Bank and IDBI Bank.'
The implementation of the master plan will be in two main stages — the Interim Phase to be completed by 2008 and the Phase I to be completed by 2010. The Interim Phase envisages refurbishing Terminal 2B, revamp of Terminal 1A, setting up of a temporary cargo facilities and upgradation of airside runway facilities and multi-level car parks.
In Phase I, a brand new terminal building (T2) will come up at Sahar to cater to international and domestic passengers, a dedicated link from the Western Express Highway and building of new cargo facilities.

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DETAILS OF WHICH AIRLINE OPERATES FROM WHICH TERMINAL

Terminal 1-A(Domestic)
Go Air (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Srinagar) Indian (Domestic) (Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Madurai, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam) Kingfisher Airlines (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mangalore, Srinagar)

Terminal 1-B (Domestic)
Air Sahara (Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Varanasi) Air Deccan (Aurangabad, Bhavnagar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jamnagar, Kochi, Kolkata, Nagpur, Raipur, Rajkot, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara) Jet Airways (Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Nagpur, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara) SpiceJet (Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad)

Terminals 2-A (International)
Air Arabia (Sharjah) All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Narita) [begins September 1, 2007] Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa) Austrian Airlines (Vienna) British Airways (London-Heathrow) Cathay Pacific (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Hong Kong) Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK) El Al (Tel Aviv) Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) Finnair (Helsinki) [begins June 2007] Gulf Air (Bahrain, Muscat) Indian (International) (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Sharjah) Jazeera Airways (Kuwait) Jet Airways (Brussels [starts August 5, 2007], London-Heathrow, Newark [begins August 5, 2007], San Francisco [begins October 2007], Singapore, Shanghai-Pudong [begins October 2007]) Kenya Airways (Nairobi) Kuwait Airways (Kuwait) Lufthansa (Frankfurt) Northwest Airlines (Amsterdam, Seattle/Tacoma) Oman Air (Muscat) Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi) Qantas Airways (Darwin, Singapore, Sydney) Qatar Airways (Doha) Saudi Arabian Airlines (Dammam, Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh) SriLankan Airlines (Colombo, Karachi) Swiss International Air Lines (Zurich) Virgin Atlantic (London-Heathrow)

Terminal 2-C (International)

(Moscow-Sheremetyevo) Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle) Air India (Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Chennai, Chicago-O'Hare, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fujairah, Goa, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kochi, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Salalah, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson) Air India Express (Abu Dhabi, Singapore (by 2007)) Air Mauritius (Mauritius) Continental Airlines (Newark) [begins October 02, 2007] EgyptAir (Cairo, Kuala Lumpur) [begins June 2, 2007] Emirates (Dubai) EVA Air (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan) Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa) Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad) Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon) Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur) Royal Jordanian Airlines (Amman) Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu) Singapore Airlines (Singapore) Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen) [Start, soon} South African Airways (Johannesburg) Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi) Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk) Yemenia (Aden, Sanna)
Cargo
Air France Alitalia Blue Dart British Airways World Cargo Cathay Pacific Cargo FedEx Emirates Sky Cargo Etihad Crystal Cargo Ethiopian Airlines EVA Air Cargo Korean Air Cargo Lufthansa Cargo Shanghai Airlines Singapore Airlines Cargo SriLankan Airlines Cargo UPS

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