The new and extraordinary Mumbai airport Terminal two is ready for business. The Prime minister will inaugurate the building on Friday and the first international passengers will start arriving there on a subsequent Wednesday. The date is still not certain because last minute clearances are still to come, but the transition will most likely be on a Wednesday afternoon, when traffic at the airport is at its lowest. The two old terminals at Sahar that were built by AAI in phases over four decades, will then be demolished. The Rs 12,500 crore exercise of rebuilding Mumbai airport actually began way back in 2008. GVK vice-chairman Sanjay Reddy who is also the managing director MIAL (Mumbai International Airport Ltd), the company that runs the airport, has driven it night and day. The new terminal is about 40% of this cost, the other big changes are not even visible to passengers. These are on the air-side, where aircraft takeoff and land. In the past five years, MIAL has re-laid the two runways, built new taxiways, re-routed the Mithi river that flows within the airport boundaries and re-built dozens of buildings in the airport complex.
The airport company worked more like a demolition squad pulling down over 65 million square feet of old, inefficient buildings in the 2,000 acre airport complex; often replacing them with more efficient new ones.
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