Gautam Adani visits Navi Mumbai airport, to be inaugurated in June

Mumbai Mumbai: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Sunday visited the site of the Navi Mumbai airport, which is almost ready for operations. “Visited the site of Navi Mumbai International Airport today–a world-class airport taking shape. Set to be inaugurated this June, it will redefine connectivity and growth. A true gift to India!” Gautam Adani wrote on Instagram while sharing visuals from his visit to the airport. The Adani Group had earlier indicated that it plans to inaugurate the Navi Mumbai airport in the first half of 2025.

The Navi Mumbai airport took a significant step towards becoming operational with its first commercial flight validation test in December 2024. The greenfield Navi Mumbai airport will have two parallel runways, allowing two aircraft to land and take off simultaneously. The Navi Mumbai airport project is proposed to be developed in multiple phases. Once completed, the airport will have the capacity to handle over 90 million passengers per annum (MPPA). In the initial phase, it is implementing a passenger capacity of 20 MPPA and a cargo handling capacity of 800,000 tonnes per annum.

The Navi Mumbai airport will have a 3,700-metre runway capable of handling large commercial aircraft. Adani Airport Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2019 as a 100 per cent subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Limited, the flagship company of the Adani Group. The Adani Group made its first venture in the airport sector by emerging as the highest bidder to operate, manage and develop six airports: Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram. It also signed concession agreements with the Airports Authority of India for all six airports. The already operational airport in Mumbai is also Adani’s airport. According to the Adani Group website, the group entered civil aviation “with a vision to leverage its rich experience in building stellar infrastructure to transform Indian airports.”