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GVK, which won the bid for modernising the Mumbai airport, has a simple masterplan. It will shift from the domestic flight's hub to Sahar international airport, and use the one in Santa Cruz for cargo planes only.

A second parallel runway will be built at Sahar to handle the extra traffic. At present, 300 flights take off every day from Santa Cruz and another 250 from Sahar, and heavy congestion during peak hours results in delays and crippling fuel costs as many flights have to circle the airport before getting permission to land. GVK also plans to use the 4-acre parking space more judiciously—a seven-storey parking facility with restaurants and cafeterias.

Inside the airport, travellers will get more comfortable seats. Sources contend that the company is mulling the possibility of constructing a five-star hotel near the existing AAI's housing colony in Chakala (near Andheri East). But that'll involve the rehabilitation of nearly 1,000 AAI employees. GVK will connect the city to the airport through a proposed metro network and a flyover that'll join the western expressway with the airport. To handle the traffic between terminals, it may use a mass rapid transport system—like the sky bus—and sources say discussions have been initiated with a likely contractor, the Konkan Railway Corporation.

The contentious issue for GVK, however, will be the encroachment by 80,000 slum-dwellers on airport land. The company has met mmrda officials to tell them that the city authority is responsible for clearing 12 per cent of the encroachers and relocate them to transit camps by the end of this year. It has also appointed Mukesh Mehta, the architect and brain behind the Dharavi redevelopment plan, to conduct a base-level socio-economic survey among the remaining households to determine the rehabilitation eligibility mark. Experts are not too sure about the viability of GVK's plan, especially as the company will share 38 per cent of its revenues with AAI. In addition, there'll be competition from the new proposed airport in Navi Mumbai that'll be operational in the next few years.
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if u have noticed theres a huge plot in the name of CIDCO partially outside mumbai in navi mumbai that was a plan for the intl airport first but some problems came in so the plan is in the fridge

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if u have noticed theres a huge plot in the name of CIDCO partially outside mumbai in navi mumbai that was a plan for the intl airport first but some problems came in so the plan is in the fridge


 


".... in the fridge?"


You mean pipeline?



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.... in the fridge?"



Do you mean it's in the deep freezer??

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One thing puzzles me though. Are they planning to shift both the domestic terminals (1A & 1B) to Sahar? Bcoz the Terminal 1B (Departures) has recently been renovated and in my opinion is the swankiest terminal in India! In fact, the arrivals area is currently under renovation and will be ready by the year end. I am sure they would not let such a huge investment go waste! They might retain Terminal 1B while relocating arrivals/departures from 1A.


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- Vivek


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GVK, which won the bid for modernising the Mumbai airport, has a simple masterplan. It will shift from the domestic flight's hub to Sahar international airport, and use the one in Santa Cruz for cargo planes only. A second parallel runway will be built at Sahar to handle the extra traffic.



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One thing puzzles me though. Are they planning to shift both the domestic terminals (1A & 1B) to Sahar? Bcoz the Terminal 1B (Departures) has recently been renovated and in my opinion is the swankiest terminal in India!

It maybe the swankiest terminal in India but there are no jetways. You cannot have a world class airport with terminals without jetways. Boarding is still a pain in terminal 1A. After all how many boarding gates can you for buses.

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the best solution for BOM airport is to make the existing one as domestic and domstic cargo and try and get the CIDCO land outside the city for an intl+intl cargo flights 

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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/06/15/stories/2006061502070700.htm


Mumbai Intl Airport plans Rs 7,000-cr investment


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`Funds have been tied up; to submit master plan by September'





Modernisation plan
MIAL would be submitting a master plan covering 20 years of future airport operations in September.
HR consulting firm Mercer has come aboard to change management and HR strategy for MIAL.






MR G.V. KRISHNA REDDY (left), Chairman, Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd, and Mr Sanjat Reddy, Managing Director, at a press conference in Mumbai on Wednesday. — Paul Noronha


Mumbai , June 14

Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL), the 74:26 joint venture between the GVK-SA Consortium and Airports Authority of India (AAI), managing airport operations here since May 3, would invest at least Rs 7,000 crore over the next 20 years to modernise facilities.

The overall estimate could become higher; Rs 5,800 crore over the next seven years being a better determined figure for the present. "The funds have been tied up, investment won't be a problem at all," Mr G.V. Sanjay Reddy, Managing Director, MIAL, said at a press briefing today. The company has provided bank guarantee to the Government for the equity component in investment spanning seven years; it has also signed the first set of documents for debt.

Concession period


The concession period under the Operations Management and Development Agreement (OMDA), signed on May 3, is for 30 years and MIAL would be submitting a master plan covering 20 years of future airport operations in September. Many aspects of planned facilities, funding and mode of project execution would be clearer by then. Netherlands Airports Consultants BV (NACO) would lead the process in airport design and master planning. Changi Airport, Singapore, would review the master plan.

Human resource consulting firm Mercer, has come aboard to change management and HR strategy for MIAL, which has 2,600 employees. The OMDA requires MIAL to run the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) with existing staff and train them to international standards.

Mr Reddy cautioned that while the city was justified in having high hopes for CSIA, they should be "reasonable expectations" as the way ahead was most challenging. The situation best summed up in CSIA's description as "city-locked", its meagre area heavily encroached upon, a village in the middle, a river prone to flooding on the periphery and some of the city's biggest drains passing right through it.

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Deducting for colonies et al, actual acreage available is just 1,450 acres, as against 5,000 acres in Delhi and 5,500 acres for the proposed new airport in Hyderabad. "Future development is very dependent on utilising this minimum amount of land and getting the maximum out of it," he said.

Airport development would be in three phases, the first being a 100-day plan to improve facilities in select areas. Second phase involves upgrading the existing terminals, 1A and 1B. Long-term plans include a new single terminal at Sahar for domestic and international operations (which would free up existing terminals at Santa Cruz for low cost airlines) and a new cargo facility. According to Mr Reddy, 37.8 per cent of revenues would be shared with the AAI.

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CSIA accounts for 37 per cent of India's air traffic. It saw over 1.76 crore passengers last year and handles some 490,000 tonnes of cargo annually. Given the pace of growth, future infrastructure would require a second parallel runway despite space constraint.

"We will have to rehabilitate the surrounding slums if we are to make the second runway. That will have to be done," he said.

Though airport capacity is a function of aircraft size, the number of peak hours and the number of aircraft movements that ATCs can handle, it is estimated that sans second runway the maximum capacity at Mumbai would be 25-27 million passengers.

"We would like to build capacity of 40 million," Mr Reddy said. The second runway would need relocation of several aircraft hangars, among them facilities belonging to Air India, Jet Airways and large corporate houses like Reliance and Tata.

Mr Reddy said that as per the OMDA, MIAL had the first right of refusal for developing the proposed new airport in Navi Mumbai.

Though MIAL would have to go through the bidding scheme, should it fall 10 per cent short of the highest bid it would enjoy the right to revise and match the offer.



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Interesting Sahar to Host Domestic & International Traffic & Current Santacruz to Host LCCs & Freighters.


Wheres the Parallell Runway to be constructed.If its Parallel to 09-27 what happens to the Hangars.


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The hangars will have to be dismantled.


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Wheres the Parallell Runway to be constructed.If its Parallel to 09-27 what happens to the Hangars. regds MEL



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Are you Confirming all Hangars on the Northern side of 09-27.


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Negative. The new runway is planned to be constructed south of 09-27. So, the Air India hangars there will have to be dismantled.


There is no space on the northern side of 09-27 as there are taxiways and then the International terminal.


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Are you Confirming all Hangars on the Northern side of 09-27. regds MEL



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Hey guys, here is the link to the article on GVK's plans for the Mumbai airport in Sunday's DNA.


http://digital.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?queryed=20&eddate=6/18/2006


Click on Page 4 and refer to the section titled, "Countdown". You can click and enlarge the image as well.


Now, if you look at the image, you can clearly see the new proposed runway (illustrated in pink) will run parallel to the existing 09-27 and slightly to the south of it. The existing second runway 14-32 will still remain as it is.


They plan to run both the runways together - one for landings and the other for take-offs and handle around 1000 aircraft movement a day as opposed to 580 currently.


 



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well i wud be proud to go the airport and receive my frnds from USA and France if such a airport comes into existence


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Sorry That was a Typo.


I wanted to state Southern side of the Runway.


Thats a lot of Work then.


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Yup, you're right. They will have to dismantle the Air India hangars. Plus they also have to contend with the Mithi river which flows alongside for some distance before it veers left. Besides, there are some hutments on the extreme eastern end of the airport between the two existing runways.


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 I wanted to state Southern side of the Runway. Thats a lot of Work then. regds MEL



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well the mithi river is more dangerous than the Nile or Amazon...BOM airport over Mithi airport???




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If the environmentalists have their way, GVK would find themselves in court over damage to the river! Mithi river is now an ultra-protected zone. BMC has recently de-sludged the river to ensure that there is no water logging in the area like 26th July last year.


So, GVK will have to think very hard before touching the river!


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well the mithi river is more dangerous than the Nile or Amazon...BOM airport over Mithi airport???



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With a monorail within the airport its gonna be like Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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As per the link provided by Vivek,


I dont understand how are they going to build any more Jetways/Aerobridges which according to most people signifies a "world class airport".Because it seems that they are keeping the current international airport or a part of it for LCC.


As the link says that the current international terminal will be used for LCC operations so basically you will have all passenger operations at one place.


Maybe time will tell and i just hope that they dont have to past throug 1 million committes before evry hurdle gets cleared.


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Karan


This will have severe consequences on transport modes,



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