‘Charter flights from Mum to shift to NMIA next year'
"CSMIA has about 27 parking stands for GA planes. NMIA is going to have 100 stands, along with 18 hangars for them. It will be India's biggest hub for general aviation flights,"
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director (airports) Jeet Adani told TOI on Friday. NMIA will initially house a temporary VVIP area. In 2029 when T2 gets ready there, the greenfield airport will have a dedicated VVIP terminal. "Our focus is also on cargo at NMIA, which will initially handle 8 lakh tons of cargo and will eventually go to 20-25 lakh tons in the coming years.
We are in touch with DHL and Fedex to set up their Asia hubs here," he said.
Even as the focus is on the upcoming NMIA and the new T1 at CSMIA, Adani said the two airports with a collective capacity of 15 crore passengers annually (CPA) will get exhausted by 2042-2045. "There is an immediate need for a third airport. We are very happy the govt is looking at Wadhwan as the site for the third airport for MMR," he said.
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