GVK, Cidco set 2021-end as deadline for Navi Mumbai airport's first flight

While Maharashtra has been keen to make airport operational by December 2019, Cidco-GVK concession agreement extends launch timeframe by two years

The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) and the GVK group have set 2021-end as a deadline for the commercial launch of the Navi Mumbai airport.

The two parties signed the concession agreement for the Navi Mumbai airport on Monday.  The GVK group won the bid to construct the airport last February but the award letter was issued only in October.

While the state government has been keen to make the Navi Mumbai airport operational by December 2019,  the concession agreement signed today extends the launch timeframe by two years.

As per the  agreement, the commercial date of operations of