CSIA is considered among the leading airports in South Asia and handles 18.6% of all India traffic.
As Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) gets busier, with passenger traffic growing at an unexpected rate of 13.7% over the last year to cross 41.67 million in 2015-16, the airport operator Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), owned by GVK Group, is forced to increase its capacity to 50-52 million passengers annually.
The company has lined up an expansion plan of Rs 3,500-crore, reveals the latest sustainability report released by MIAL.
According to an earlier projection by MIAL for 2015-16, the passenger movement was estimated to reach 35 million. However, MIAL reported movement of 41.67 million passengers during the year.
According to MIAL, the traffic has grown at least 4 years before its target.
MIAL, which, as a concessionaire, is mandated with redevelopment and expansion of airport activities at CSIA has a slew of plans for further expansion which included upgrading of the runway capacity to 48 aircraft movement per hour during peak hours from 45 at present. On rare occasions, the number of flight movements even touched 52, the company CEO RK Jain wrote in the preface.
Another important plan, which is still being assessed by environmental and social angles and has been in the pipeline for a couple of years is the construction of vehicle underpass underneath runway 14/32, connecting existing aircraft parking area/aprons at Terminal 2 and Terminal 1 along with an extension of taxiways for unhindered air-side connectivity and efficacy.
The airport management, during a stakeholders meeting earlier, had said that even after all the domestic operations are shifted to T2, quite a few aircraft that have a night halt at CSIA will have to be parked at T1 apron. So the last arrivals for these aircraft and the first departures of these aircraft will have to be handled from T1 apron and therefore tunnel would be required for expeditious transfer of passengers who will be processed in T2 and will need to be transferred to the T1 apron for their respective aircraft.
Taxiway extensions, remote parking bay, cargo and passenger terminal improvement, parking and apron expansion are other developments presently undergoing to increase the passenger capacity.
CSIA is considered among the leading airports in South Asia and handles 18.6% of all India traffic.
The report adds that during the period 2014-2016, domestic passenger traffic grew by 31% as compared to 2012-2014. Similarly, the number of international passengers grew by 14% during 2014-16 as compared to 2012-2014. Also, the air traffic movement increased by 11 % during the same comparative period, while cargo increased by 9%.
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