Mumbai airport to operate all domestic, international flights from T-2 in view of pandemic

The metropolis’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) has determined to as soon as once more consolidate its flight operations to one terminal – T2 – from April 21 amid rising quantity of COVID-19 instances in town.

The non-public airport operator had solely on March 10 reopened its home passenger terminal T-1 for normal flight operations after retaining it closed for practically a yr.

“In light of the latest developments in the ongoing pandemic situation, CSMIA has decided to re-consolidate all domestic passenger flights currently operating via Terminal 1. With effect from April 21, the airport will be conducting all international as well as domestic flight operations through its Terminal 2,” CSMIA mentioned in a press release.

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All passengers of GoAir, Star Air, Air Asia, TruJet and IndiGo have been requested to get in contact with the respective airways for additional queries, it mentioned.

The Mumbai airport has two terminals T1 and T2. Terminal 1 caters to home passengers and Terminal 2 has international providers moreover home operations of some of the Indian airways. Prior to the pandemic, some airways have been finishing up their operations from T 1.

However, after the resumption of home industrial passenger providers in late final yr, following a virtually two-month shutdown in the wake of the pandemic, the flight providers have been being operated solely from T2 until March 9 this yr.

From March 10, GoAir, Star Air, Air Asia and Trujet resumed all their home operations from Terminal 1.

In addition to this, whereas IndiGo was working most of its flights from Terminal 2, its base flights have been being operated by means of Terminal 1.

CSMIA has been working intently with its stakeholders and related regulatory and authorities our bodies to curb the unfold of the virus, the airport operator mentioned in the discharge.

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