Mumbai: The Mumbai airport, at present, caters to 29 million passengers a year, and the overburdened airport is expected to reach its peak saturation capacity of 40 million passengers by 2012. Its only hope is the Navi Mumbai International airport, around 30 km away from it. The airport has an original deadline of 2012, but just a few months away from that deadline, all that has come up on this...
10:17 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Airport has been hit by another road block after farmers demanded Rs 20 crores per acre as compensation. Farmers are demanding 4 to 5 times the market rate, for over a thousand acres of land, needed for the airport. Apart from this, they are also demanding rehabilitation and jobs. Twenty-nine million passengers a year now and this overburdened airport is expected to reach its peak saturation capacity...
08:16 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Mumbai: The past one week has almost been a nightmare for the passengers and authorities at the Mumbai airport. There have been at least five near misses or technical problems in one week. The Turkish Airlines flight stuck in mud was towed away only after three days. The incident put the main runway of the Mumbai airport out of action for three days. During that time at least 18 flights...
08:34 AM, Sep 12, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai is all set to have a new airport as the Environment Ministry gave a green signal to the Navi Mumbai airport project. However, the question of rehabilitating 15000 villagers from the site has run into some turbulence. While the residents of Waghiwali village carry on with their daily tasks, there is an air of uncertainty in the village. Waghiwali is one of the 10 villages that will make...
09:44 AM, Dec 12, 2010
Mumbai: The new international airport at Navi Mumbai has been given a go-ahead after a compromise between the Environment and Civil Aviation ministries and City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO). Announcing the clearance for the airport, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said that River Gadhi would not be diverted to make way for the airport and added that 161 hectares of mangroves would fall under Navi Mumbai...
03:55 PM, Nov 22, 2010
The main runaway of the Mumbai airport has been partially shut down between 9:00 am to 5:00 PM everyday, thereby delay flights both to and from the city. On-ground congestion due to the construction work on the tarmac here, coupled with the fact that the rapid exit taxiways are not in use when the main runway is closed, are leading to a cascading effect of delays both to and from ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
The main runaway of the Mumbai airport has been partially shut down between 9:00 am to 5:00 PM everyday, thereby delay flights both to and from the city. On-ground congestion due to the construction work on the tarmac here, coupled with the fact that the rapid exit taxiways are not in use when the main runway is closed, are leading to a cascading effect of delays both to and from ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Mumbai: There is hope for the Navi Mumbai Airport. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN has indicated for the first time that the stalemate over the controversial project site may soon end. Jairam said the Maharashtra government and CIDCO have agreed to address most of the Environmental Ministry's concerns. CIDCO had initially resisted any changes in the original plan which threatened to destroy 400 acres of mangroves. However,...
08:23 PM, Oct 09, 2010
The construction for the Rs 9000 crore Navi Mumbai Airport has been put on hold. ...
04:11 PM, Jun 21, 2009
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