Private jet flyers to get dedicated terminal at Navi Mumbai Airport by September 2026

Navi Mumbai airport

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Private jet users will soon have access to a dedicated terminal at the newly opened Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), with operations scheduled to begin in September 2026, according to a senior official of Adani Airports Holdings (AAHL). Construction of aircraft parking hangars at the airport is already underway and is expected to be completed in the coming months.

“While plane handling started from the first day, the terminal will open in September. Hangars are under construction. All the major operators want to shift to Navi Mumbai (from Mumbai),” Jeet Adani, Director at AAHL, had told Moneycontrol in an interview on the eve of NMIA’s opening.

Demand for private jet hangars at NMIA has been strong. Airport officials said applications for parking slot licences are nearly three times the available capacity, underscoring the growing interest among general aviation (GA) operators to move out of Mumbai’s congested Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA).

In April and May last year, AAHL had asked airlines and private jet operators to vacate parking bays at CSMIA to enable the construction of a new taxiway. The airport operator had planned to dismantle existing hangars from August 1, but the process was delayed due to the monsoon season.

Currently, CSMIA has around 24 parking lots for general aviation aircraft. NMIA, in comparison, will start operations with 23–25 hangars and eventually scale up to 89 hangars, making it one of the largest GA facilities in the country. AAHL also plans to end the practice of allowing overnight parking of small private jets at CSMIA. Going forward, only “pick-and-drop” operations will be permitted at Mumbai airport, while NMIA will serve as the dedicated parking hub.

“A lot of the planes parked in CSMIA are illegal because they breach into the obstacle line of sight (OLS). A lot of the hangars are illegal because they breach into the OLS. So, we will have to break the non-compliant ones. This has been long pending,” Adani said.

The move, however, has drawn objections from the Business Aircraft Operators Association (BAOA), whose members include large corporate groups such as the Aditya Birla Group, JSW Steel, Bajaj Auto, Larsen & Toubro Aviation, and Raymond. The association argued that dropping passengers at CSMIA, flying the aircraft to NMIA for parking, and then returning to pick them up would lead to higher fuel costs and added operational complexity.

Despite the concerns, AAHL has maintained that both airports—though located about 40 km apart—are treated as a single operational system for coordination and ease of use. NMIA’s dedicated GA terminal is designed to cater specifically to VVIP and business aviation passengers, positioning the new airport as a central hub for private jet operations in the Mumbai metropolitan region.