Overview

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the greenfield airport on Wednesday, with airlines planning to begin passenger services in late November or early December and initial operations limited to daytime hours.
• The Maharashtra government has approved a dedicated airport police station with 108 posts, and the operator plans a CISF deployment of about 1,840 personnel alongside AI-enabled surveillance and DigiYatra processing.
• Access preparations include published road routes via the Atal Setu, the near-ready Targhar suburban rail station, planned water taxi services, and the proposed Metro ‘Gold Line,’ with a tunnel link from Mumbai ordered for feasibility study.
• Phase 1 features a 3,700‑metre runway and Terminal 1 sized for roughly 20 million passengers per year, scaling in later phases toward about 90 million passengers and more than 3.2–3.5 million tonnes of cargo annually.
• Passenger-focused features include biometric gates, extensive self-service and automated baggage systems, an Automated People Mover between terminals, a Category II landing system for low visibility, and flood‑resilient engineering raised to 8.5 metres.