The upcoming greenfield Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) in Panvel will become the first airport in the country to have multimodal connectivity upon completion. The airport will be connected on three sides by highways, and will also have metro and suburban rail links, including airport-to-airport metro services. Additional modes of connectivity will include monorails, sky trains, hovercrafts for water transport, and even bullet trains. The airport is set for Phases I and II inauguration in June, and commercial operations are likely to begin in the second half of the year. In the first two phases, which will commence simultaneously, one runway, and one terminal with a passenger capacity of two crore are getting ready. The second runway with four terminals and a passenger capacity of nine crore, will be created in Phases 3, 4 and 5, as per a report.
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