While London has Heathrow, Gatwick, City, and Stansted airports, New York has JFK, LaGuardia and Newark, and Moscow has Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo, now two Indian metropolis—Delhi NCR and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region— are set to join the big league. With the inauguration of the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Noida International Airport slated to commence operations on October 30, India and its aviation are joining the club of megacities that have multiple airports.

Yeah, Delhi NCR might already have two airports—Indira Gandhi International and Hindon in Ghaziabad , and Goa, too, counts Mopa and Dabolim . But there's a catch. Both Dabolim and Hindon are defence-owned, with civilian enclaves carved out, making them mixed-use,

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