India, Oct. 7 -- The Air India One carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi will land at Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) at 2.40 pm on October 8, marking the inauguration of the NMIA and placing Mumbai in the league of cities havingtwin airports.
Being constructed at a cost of '19,647 crore, the new state-of-the-art airport is spread over 1,160 hectares. The first phase of the NMIA will handle two crore passengers annually and five lakh tons of cargo. Once it is fully operational, the airport will have four terminals with a total capacity of nine crore passengers per year and 3.25 million tons of cargo annually. The NMIA will become operational from December 2025. The Prime Minister is expected to arrive at the NMIA at 2.40 pm Octobe...