Mumbai Airport in Maharashtra is one of the few international airports of India.
Mumbai Airport
Mumbai Airport is also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. Certified by ISO 9001: 2000, it the busiest airport in India and the major gateway to the international traffic to the country. Mumbai Airport (previously called Bombay Airport) is widely connected to the rest of India as well as major cities across the world. The airport is spread over an area of 1,450 acres. Apart from being the busiest airport, it is the country's largest and most important aviation hub. It handles as many as 25 million passengers. Go through the following lines to know all about the profile of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai.
History
Until the establishment of Mumbai Airport, Juhu aerodrome functioned as the sole airport of the city. Due to the constraints faced it its operations, its low-level location and its vicinity to the Arabian Sea coastline, it was considered necessary to shift the aerodrome further inland, to the suburb of Santa Cruz. Subsequently, a new terminal building was erected in June 1948, from where Air India plied its inaugural flight to London, via Cairo and Geneva. The building was initially under the control of the Public Works Department, later on run by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. The airfield was, thus, located in Santa Cruz and named after the place.
The new international terminal of Santa Cruz Airport started its operations at Sahar in 1981, due to the major fire that gutted Santa Cruz Terminal, in 1979. Even before the mishap, plans were made to construct a new international terminal, since Santa Cruz had reached the saturation point. However, even today, the domestic terminals 1-A and 1-B are commonly referred to as Santa Cruz. Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), a consortium of GVK Industries Ltd. (GVK) and Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), was appointed to carry out the renovation of Mumbai Airport in February 2006.
Airport Structure
Currently, Mumbai International Airport consists of two main terminals - Terminal 1 (Santa Cruz) for domestic flights and Terminal 2 (Sahar) for international flights. Although both the terminals use the same airside facilities, they are physically separated on the landside. The distance between each terminal is a 10-15 minutes drive. Terminal 1 is further divided into two - Terminal 1 A and Terminal 1-B.
The International Terminal has presently two modules, Terminal - 2A & Terminal - 2C and has 36 airlines flying to major cities across the world. The Domestic Airport has two terminals i.e. Terminal -1A & Terminal - 1B. Terminal -1A caters to domestic flights of Indian Airlines and its subsidiary Alliance Air. Flights of other scheduled private airlines viz Jet Airways, Air Sahara and Air Deccan operate from Terminal -1B, along with other private aviation activities.
Airlines
Domestic
Terminal 1-A
- Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Nagpur, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hubli, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi, Srinagar, Varanasi)
Terminal 1-B
- Go Air (Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Cochin, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Jaipur, Jammu, Srinagar)
- IndiGo (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Nagpur, Patna, Vadodara)
- Jagson Airlines (Shirdi)
- Jet Airways (Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Diu, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Porbunder, Pune, Rajkot, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara)
- JetLite (Bhuj, Calicut, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Nagpur, Raipur, Srinagar, Visakhapatnam)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Kingfisher Red class services) (Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Kandla, Kolhapur, Latur, Lucknow, Mangalore, Nagpur, Nanded, Nasik, Solapur, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Udaipur)
- SpiceJet (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Srinagar, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam)
Terminal 2 - International
Terminal 2B
- Air Arabia (Sharjah)
- All Nippon Airways (operated by Air Nippon) (Tokyo-Narita)
- Bahrain Air (Bahrain)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Cathay Pacific (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Hong Kong)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain)
- Indian Airlines (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Calicut, Chennai, Cochin, Dubai, Hyderabad, Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, Singapore)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
- Jazeera Airways (Kuwait)
- Jet Airways (Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Brussels, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kuwait, London-Heathrow, Muscat, Newark, Singapore)
- Kenya Airways (Nairobi)
- Kingfisher Airlines Hong Kong (begins 16 September), London-Heathrow, Singapore (begins 16 September)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
- Oman Air (Muscat)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi)
- Qantas (Brisbane, Singapore)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Dammam, Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh)
- Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo)
- Swiss International Airlines (Zurich)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Ataturk)
Terminal 2C
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air India (Calicut, Cochin, Dammam, Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jeddah, London-Heathrow, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Newark, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Shanghai-Pudong, Tokyo-Narita, Trivandrum)
- Air India Express (Ahmedabad, Bahrain, Calicut, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Nagpur, Pune, Trivandrum)
- Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- EgyptAir (Cairo, Kuala Lumpur)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa)
- Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
- Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
- Royal Jordanian Airlines (Amman)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- South African Airways (Johannesburg)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- Yemenia (Aden, Sana'a)
Cargo Operators
- Air France Cargo
- Air India Cargo
- Blue Dart Aviation
- Atlas Air
- British Airways
- World Cargo
- Cathay Pacific Cargo
- DHL Aviation
- Ethiopian Airlines Cargo
- FedEx Express
- Gemini Air Cargo
- Korean Air Cargo
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Midex Airlines
- Qatar Airways Cargo
- Shanghai Airlines Cargo
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
- Sri Lankan Airlines Cargo
- UPS Airlines
Passenger Facilities
- Airlines CIP Lounges
- Air Insurance Counters
- Baggage X-Ray Screening
- Book Stalls/ Traveller's Shops
- Close Circuit TV System (Surveillance)
- Split Flap Flight Information Display
- Child Care Rooms
- Cyber Cafe
- Car Rental
- Duty Free Shops at International Terminal
- Executive Lounges (For Upper Class Passengers)
- Entertainment TV's
- Free Baggage Trolleys
- Free Medical Assistance
- Free Inter-Terminal A/C Coach Services (from City side and air side)
- Free Telephone in security hold area
- Reservation Counters
- Money Exchange Counters
- Pre-paid Taxi Services
- Public Address System/Car Hailers
- Public Complaints/Suggestion Cell
- Public Utility and Misc. Services including modern toilets and toilets for handicapped
- Railway Reservation Counter at International Terminal
- Reserved Lounge / Executive Lounge
- Retiring Rooms
- Restaurants/Bars
- Special assistance for physically challenged passengers, rest places, toilets
- STD/ISD/PCO/Card Phone
- Snack Bars
- Tea/Coffee Vending Booths
- Telecom Centre
- Tourist Information Counters
- Visitors Lounge
Contact Details
Chhatrapati Shivaji International aiRport
Sakinaka Junction
Andheri Kurla Rd
Andheri East Mumbai
Mumbai - 400072
India
Domestic Terminal (1A/1B) :+91 22 26264000
International Terminal (2B/2C) :+91 22 26813000
Last Updated on 1st August, 2009
