Navi Mumbai Airport Expansion: CIDCO issues tender for third runway study

The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has initiated the process of hiring a consultant to perform an extensive techno-commercial feasibility study for the construction of a third parallel runway at the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA).

For this purpose, a Request for Proposal (RFP) has been prepared, inviting bids from reputed and eligible single entities or joint ventures/consortia.

“This step reflects CIDCO’s commitment to forward-looking infrastructure planning, ensuring that Navi Mumbai International Airport continues to evolve in line with the region’s long-term growth and development requirements,” said Shri Vijay Singhal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, CIDCO.

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At present, Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) are primarily served by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), which has a passenger handling capacity of around 50–55 million passengers per annum (MPPA).

With NMIA becoming operational, the region will develop into a planned multi-airport system with a combined capacity of about 150 MPPA—comprising 50–55 MPPA at CSMIA and 90–95 MPPA at NMIA.

On the one hand, the new expansion phases at NMIA and the enlargement of CSMIA's capacity will address the demand coming up in the medium term; on the other, the option to have further infrastructure, such as a third runway at NMIA is being considered for coping with the long-term aviation demand that will surpass the year 2037.

Spread across approximately 1,160 hectares, NMIA is planned to handle 90 MPPA passenger traffic and 3.2 million tonnes of cargo annually.

The airport’s master plan includes two parallel and independent runways and four interconnected passenger terminals—T1 with a capacity of 20 MPPA, T2 with 30 MPPA, and T3 and T4 with 20 MPPA each—taking the total terminal capacity to 90 MPPA. The airport is being developed in five phases.

Phase I and Phase II, with a combined capacity of 20 MPPA, will be ready for domestic operations on December 25. Subsequent phases will expand capacity to 50 MPPA by 2029, 70 MPPA by 2032, and 90 MPPA by 2037.