All flights to take off from sahar airport

The Hyderabad-based GVK group given the contract for modernising Mumbai's airport plans to operate all domestic flights from Sahar and from the new airport planned at Navi Mumbai. The current domestic terminal at Santacruz will be used exclusively for cargo, according to the new master plan designed by GVK.
The master plan was discussed at a meeting of the group's officials in Mumbai last week after they took charge of the airport from the Airport Authority of India (AAI) on May 4. GVK won the contract for the airport's modernisation in April this year.
A "second and parallel runway" will be constructed at Sahar in order to manage increased traffic once the domestic traffic too is shifted there, a top GVK official told this paper.
The group also has plans to build a five-star hotel barely ten minutes away from Sahar airport, inside the AAI employees' quarters at Chakala, Andheri (E).
10/05/06 Naveeta S/Mumbai Mirror

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