MIAL knocks on AI’s doors for integrated terminal

New Delhi: The Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) — the joint venture between the GVK-South African airports combine and Airports Authority of India (AAI) — has approached Air India for the proposed integrated terminal at the Mumbai airport.
The GVK-led consortium is in talks with Air India for getting some land under the latter’s possession to build an integrated terminal at the Mumbai airport. The move comes after MIAL decided to give up constructing a second runway as decided in the master plan due to unavailability of land around the running airport.
Mumbai international airport has about 2,000 acres of land, of which only 990 acres are in use currently. About 275 acres of airport land are occupied by slums, a major hurdle in the development of airside infrastructure.
MIAL had earlier planned to have two terminals — one at Sahar for international traffic and the other at Santa Cruz for domestic passengers.
25/09/07 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times

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