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IndiGo and Akasa Air connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) said they volition commence operations from the newly-constructed Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) starting December 25.
Akasa to commence flights successful staggered manner
Connecting straight with 4 Indian cities, Akasa Air volition run its maiden formation betwixt Delhi and NMIA connected December 25 which volition beryllium followed by services to Goa, Kochi and Ahmedabad successful consequent days.
The hose said it volition progressively ramp up operations from the 2nd airdrome successful the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, scaling up to 300 home and 50 planetary play departures implicit a play of time.
As portion of its broader web strategy, Akasa said it is besides acceptable to ramp up to 10 parking bases by the extremity of FY2027, with a focused planetary enlargement into cardinal Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian markets.
"For Akasa Air, NMIA strengthens our strategical beingness successful the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and occidental India, allowing america to optimise capableness deployment and seizure caller request pools across," said Praveen Iyer, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Akasa Air.
IndiGo to statesman home flights
IndiGo volition commencement formation operations from the airdrome with home aerial services to 10 cities. IndiGo besides said it plans to grow its operations, progressively from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s 2nd airdrome by adding nonstop routes to much destinations successful owed course.
IndiGo said it volition link the future-ready airdrome to 10 cities crossed India including Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, North Goa (Mopa), Jaipur, Nagpur, Cochin, and Mangalore, starting December 25.
Gurugram-based IndiGo operates implicit 2,300 regular flights to much than 130 destinations, including 90 home airports.
The hose had a fleet size of 409 aircraft, with 362 successful operations and 47 connected ground, arsenic connected November 14, arsenic per craft fleet tracking website, Planespotter.net.
NMIA inauguration
On October 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated signifier one of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. The airdrome is built astatine a outgo of ₹19,650 crore.
In pictures | Inside Navi Mumbai International Airport
The signifier 1 of Navi Mumbai International Airport is India’s largest Greenfield airdrome project, developed nether a Public–Private Partnership (PPP). Photo: Special Arrangement
The airdrome is said to beryllium good connected arsenic it is 14 km from Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) Sea Port, 22 km from Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), 32 km from Thane, and 40 km from Bhiwandi. Photo: Special Arrangement
The architecture inspired by lotus, has 12 sculptural diagnostic columns — anchors that emergence similar unfurling petals, 17 mega columns — unseen pillars carrying the value of the lotus extortion canopies. Photo: Special Arrangement
In enactment with sustainable practices, the airdrome volition diagnostic dedicated retention for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), star powerfulness procreation of astir 47 MW, and EV autobus services for nationalist connectivity crossed the city. NMIA volition besides beryllium the archetypal airdrome successful the state to beryllium connected by Water Taxi. Photo: Special Arrangement
Among its unsocial offerings is an Automated People Mover (APM), a transit strategy planned to link each 4 rider terminals for creaseless inter-terminal transfers, arsenic good arsenic a landside APM linking the city-side infrastructure. Photo: Special Arrangement
As the 2nd planetary airdrome for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, NMIA volition enactment successful tandem with the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) to easiness congestion and elevate Mumbai into the league of planetary multi-airport systems. Photo: Special Arrangement
The airport, designed to beryllium among the astir businesslike successful the satellite with 1160 Ha area, volition yet grip 90 cardinal passengers annually (MPPA) and 3.25 cardinal metric tonnes of cargo. Photo: Special Arrangement
The netted structures of the lotus pillars, designed by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects, volition supply passive cooling wrong the airport. Photo: Special Arrangement
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Spread crossed 1,160 hectares, the airdrome volition person 1 terminal and 1 runway successful the archetypal signifier with an yearly rider handling capableness of 20 million.
Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) is designed to complement the existing Mumbai International Airport and cater to the increasing request for aerial question from India’s fiscal capital, IndiGo said.
Strategically located, NMIA is expected to play a pivotal relation successful enhancing determination connectivity and supporting economical improvement successful occidental India.
