Mumbai: The upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) has been almost two decades in the making. What began as a policy decision in 2007 has weathered environmental battles, resettlement challenges and engineering breakthroughs to finally near inauguration in September-end. This timeline retraces the milestones that brought India’s financial capital its long-awaited second gateway.

Terminal 1 View towards Departure Forecourt_NMIA |

The first seeds of NMIA were sown in the late 2000s, when aviation planners and policymakers realised that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) was nearing its operational limits, as it operates on a single, intersecting runway system. By 2007, the union cabinet gave in-principle approval for a new greenfield airport in Navi Mumba

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