1.The modernisation work of the
Rs 9,800-crore project entered its fourth year in 2010
2.There are some unique problems that MIAL had to cope with. Unlike the airports in, say, Delhi or Hyderabad that were cleared for modernisation around the same time, Mumbai airport had just 1,450 acres, against the 5,000 and 5,500 acres that the former two had.
In a nutshell Mumbai airport was “city-locked” — heavily encroached upon with a village on its lands, a river prone to flooding on the periphery, and some of the city's biggest drains passing right through it.
3.CSIA is said to be the first airport in India to introduce an airport management system by SITA, the global provider of airport IT solutions.
4.The airport now has modern signages, flight information display and public address systems, housekeeping and maintenance, and a new transit facility at Terminal 2A, increased transportation facilities for transit passengers and a new check in area at Terminal1B
5.With all this, CSIA has also shifted from dependence on manual systems to IT-driven automation, enabling end-to-end management of airport resources in real time. It has also entered into an agreement with SITA to implement CUSS (common use self service) kiosks to enhance passenger experience and CUTE (common use terminal equipment) check-in systems to organise gate and check-in counter allocations.
6.As a part of the overall effort to upgrade the cross runway system, MIAL also completed the reconstruction of the runway intersection at CSIA
as planned. This complex project entailed clockwork execution and was completed in a period of 22 weeks starting on October 27, 2009 and ending on March 23, 2010.
7.MIAL has inaugurated four new taxiways which have helped in improving runway efficiency
8.With the aim of freeing up encroached land for development and expansion work at the airport, MIAL has also awarded the contract for rehabilitation and resettlement of airport slums to Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL). According to sources in MIAL, 40-45 per cent of the Rs 9,800-crore expenditure which the project entails, has already been spent on the modernisation of CSIA, however, there is work to be done still.
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The Hindu Business Line : Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport modernisation, still on…
No new airport project at Mumbai.Yeah It will take time.But its not like they have been farting all these years doing nothing