Navi Mumbai International Airport
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Navi Mumbai International Airport (IATA: NMI, ICAO: none), officially named as D. B. Patil International Airport, is an international airport being constructed in Ulwe, Navi Mumbai, Raigad district, Maharashtra, India. When completed, it will become the second airport of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, serving alongside Mumbai's existing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.[4]
D. B. Patil International Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
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Operator | Navi Mumbai International Airport Limited (NMIAL) | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) | ||||||||||||||
Location | Ulwe, Navi Mumbai, Raigad District, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||
Opened | 31 March 2025; 9 months' time (2025-03-31)[2] | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 184 ft / 56 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 18°59′40″N 073°04′13″E | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CIDCO[3] |
Named after Dinkar Patil, the former Member of Parliament and leader of the Peasants and Workers Party of India,[5] the airport is a greenfield airport being built by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO). It is being built in three phases, out of which the first phase will be able to handle 25 million passengers per annum.[6] It will be expanded to its final capacity of third phase to handle more than 90 million passengers and 2.5 million tonnes of cargo per annum, by 2032.[7] L&T Infrastructure Engineering Limited is the detailed design consultant for the project.[8] CIDCO appointed Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) to prepare the masterplan of the airport.[9] The Texas-based Jacobs Engineering Group, prepared a detailed terminal area and facilities model to define the size of the terminals,[10][11] while the passenger terminals and the air traffic control (ATC) tower have been designed by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects.[12]
The ₹16,700 crore (US$2.1 billion) project is being executed by Navi Mumbai International Airport Limited (NMIAL), a special-purpose vehicle formed by the Adani Airports Holdings Limited and CIDCO, which will hold 74% and 26% equity shares of NMIAL respectively.[13] CIDCO will build the project through a public–private partnership (PPP) model on a Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) basis. The airport covers an area of 1,160 ha (4.5 sq mi).[13] The foundation stone for the project was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 18 February 2018, and construction was started in August 2021, after more than three years of land acquisition.[14][4] It is expected to be completed and become operational by March 2025.[2]
It will be connected with Navi Mumbai Metro Line 1 and the proposed Mumbai Metro Line 8 (Gold Line).[15] The airport is also planned to be the terminal station of the proposed Mumbai-Hyderabad High-Speed Rail (HSR) corridor.[16]