MUMBAI: The
Mumbai airport dealt with a report 1,032 flight actions a day on its single runway on November 11, the Diwali weekend. It broke its earlier report of 1,004 arrivals and departures set on December 09, 2018. After a lull of 5 years introduced on by airline closures and the pandemic, the Mumbai airport is again to dealing with over one thousand arrivals and departures a day.
The Mumbai airport has a set of two runways which criss-cross one another.Since just one runway is used at a time, Mumbai technically falls into the single-runway airport class. All the opposite main metro airports reminiscent of Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad,London Heathrow, New York-JFK, Singapore-Changi, Dubai, Sydney and many others have a set of parallel runways or extra and at any given time, two or extra runways are in simultaneous use. The Mumbai airport then operates one of many busiest single-runway operations on this planet, together with these like Gatwick-London.
With rise in flight actions, passenger numbers shot up too. The airport witnessed an increase in passenger visitors with a complete of 5,16,562 passenger actions in the course of the Diwali weekend from 11 to 13 November, 2023, stated Mumbai Worldwide Airport Ltd (MIAL) on Wednesday. Out of the over 5 lakh passengers who flew within the three days of the Diwali weekend, about 3.5 lakh have been home passengers whereas 1.62 lakh boarded worldwide flights.
“The airport catered to over 2,894 flights with 2,137 home flights and 757 flights on worldwide routes,” stated the airport spokesperson including that the highest locations for the stated three days of the Diwali weekend have been Delhi, Bengaluru, and Chennai whereas on the worldwide routes it was Dubai, London, Abu Dhabi and Singapore locations.
“Reaching a report single day air visitors motion of 1,032, CSMIA catered to a complete of 161,419 passengers on 11 November witnessing a considerable inflow with 107,765 home passengers and 53,680 worldwide passengers,” MIAL stated.
In 2018, the Mumbai airport first dealt with over 1000 flight actions in June, hitting the very best quantity in December. Nonetheless as Jet Airways, which was primarily based out of Mumbai, started chopping flights to finally droop operations in April 2019, air visitors and passenger visitors out of Mumbai fell. By the point different airways expanded their flight frequencies to compensate for
Jet Airways absence, the pandemic broke out in March 2020. It is for the primary time since 2019 that air visitors has crossed 4 digits for Mumbai airport.