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Commercial operations at Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 8, will begin on December 25, officials said on Monday. Passengers will initially benefit from services operated by IndiGo, Air India Express, and Akasa Air, connecting Mumbai to 16 major domestic destinations.
In the first month, the airport will operate between 8 am and 8 pm, handling 23 scheduled departures. It will manage up to 10 flight movements per hour during this period, the officials said. The inaugural flight to arrive at NMIA will be IndiGo 6E460 from Bengaluru, scheduled to touch down at 8 am. IndiGo 6E882 will depart for Hyderabad at 8.40 am, marking the first outbound service from the new airport.
The officials further said that while there would be 23 daily departures from the airport between December 25 and January 31 next year, the daily departures would increase to 34 from February 1 onwards, to meet the increasing needs of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
To ensure a seamless start, NMIA is conducting comprehensive operational readiness and airport transfer (ORAT) trials in collaboration with all stakeholders, including security agencies and airline partners. With deployment across key airport functions, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was formally inducted at NMIA on October 29.
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