Wed, 4 Nov, 2026, 09:19 pm
Reported by The Indian Express
Amid stiff resistance from foreign airlines to shift some international flights from the Mumbai airport to the Navi Mumbai airport, the former's operator has informed the government that it plans to suspend all flights to 14 international destinations in the 2027 summer schedule, which means that these destinations would be served only from the new airport some 50 km away, according to sources.
The 14 destinations identified by Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) are the ones that Indian airlines IndiGo, Air India group, and Akasa Air have decided to serve from Navi Mumbai instead of Mumbai. Both Mumbai and Navi Mumbai airports are operated by Adani group entities.
The 14 destinations are Bahrain, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Fujairah, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuwait, Madinah, Muscat, Ras Al Khaimah, Riyadh, and Sharjah. In a recent letter to Civil Aviation Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha, MIAL’s Chief Airport Officer Vishnu Mohan Jha informed that airlines were asked to voluntarily propose by November 3 their slots that can be transitioned out of the Mumbai airport, but if they don’t respond, the operator plans to cut all slots for these 14 destinations to ensure that all flight to and from these cities are operated from just one airport in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) instead of being split between two, it is learnt.
