The Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) is now due for inauguration, delayed by over a year from the original announcements. Airlines, led by IndiGo, have been announcing their plans for the new airport from May this year, with the latest being from Air India Express. A look at the announcements and what these translate into would indicate that if the announcements are matched by action on the ground, we could be starting at the new airport being packed to its phase 1 capacity in the very first year of operations.

For the record, the airport plans to open with a capacity of 20 million or two crore passengers a year. When an airport plans its capacity, it includes the footfalls, which are both arriving and departing passengers. While the footfalls are not uniform across months or ev

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