Wednesday 23 May 2012

About international airport.
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport formerly Sahar International Airport, is the primary international Airport in Mumbai, India, and is named after the 17th century Maratha Emperor chhatrapati Bhosle. The airport consists of two passenger terminals: Terminal 1 at santacruz for domestic flights and Terminal 2 at sahar for international flights. 

Terminals, airlines and destinations

The airport consists of four terminals:

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 comprises three adjacent structures, designated 1A, 1B and 1C.
1) Terminal 1-C opened in April 2010 and serves as a boarding-only facility for all airlines. The terminal has 6 passenger boarding bridges and allows connectivity between terminals 1A and 1B.
2) Terminal 1-A opened in April 1992, and is used by Air India and Kingfisher Airlines.
  

Terminal 2

The terminal building had a total area of 1,20,000 sq. meters.
Designed by Aeroports the paris and opened in January 1981, Terminal 2 was built in three modular phases as 2-A, 2-B, and 2-C. Each module had a capacity of 2.5 million passengers.

The Terminal 2 complex is under re-development and will handle all passenger traffic when completed.
 there are number of hotels in mumbai near international airport.


Domestic airport.
Santacruz or Santa Cruz is a section of the municipality of Mumbai. The locality had a population of 675,951 persons in 1991, over an area of 12.98 square kilometers, The name was that given to a church that existed on a site on the western side of the railway station, 

West Santa Cruz

It is primarily a residential area, with the market situated near the railway station. Santa Cruz (West) is strikingly more affluent than the eastern part of the suburb.

East Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz(East) consists of prabhat colony. vacola and kalina It also consists of land belonging Airport Authority of india,

 There are various hotels in mumbai near domestic airport.


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