Overview

• Full commercial service on the 33.5 km Aqua Line began Thursday at 5:55 am after the final 10.99 km Phase II‑B stretch to Cuffe Parade was inaugurated a day earlier.
• MMRC reported 1,18,286 riders by 7 pm and 1,46,087 by 9 pm on opening day, with crowd management briefly closing one Vidhan Bhavan entry gate for about 10 minutes.
• Trains run every five minutes at peak with a Rs 10–70 distance‑based fare, first departures at 5:55 am, and last trains at 10:30 pm reaching terminals by 11:25 pm.
• The corridor has 27 stations with full‑height platform screen doors and integrates major rail hubs and airport terminals; MMRC projects a roughly 15% relief to suburban rail and large cuts in road trips and fuel use.
• Tata Power says a dual‑busbar supply delivers about 40 MW to the line, while the new Mumbai One app went live for unified QR ticketing, though users reported mobile‑network and payment issues inside stations.