MUMBAI: Terminal-1 of Mumbai airport will reopen again a second time this year, with GoFirst moving all its domestic flights to Vile Parle from Wednesday. AirAsia India will move its flights to T1 from October 16.
The first flight to operate out of T1 will be the 5.50am GoFirst departure to Chennai, the first arrival will be an arrival from Chennai at 7.20am.
“T-1 will witness about 70 flight movements across 20 destinations on day one of its revival with a gradual rise in flight movements till October 30, and will increase its routes to 36 destinations from October 31,” said a Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) spokesperson adding that passengers will be allowed to enter the terminal only 4 hours before their departure time to provide smooth transit. IndiGo will move select flights from October 31 to T1-Parle. But most of IndiGo flights will continue to operate from T2 (Sahar).
It was earlier planned to reopen T1-Parle on October 20. But festive weekend crowds that thronged T2 on October 8 morning forced MIAL to bring forward the T1 reopening by a week. With Pune airport shut from October 16 to 29, Mumbai airport is expecting heavy passenger traffic, especially for morning flights during the festive season weekends.
