Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, formerly Sahar International Airport, is the primary international airport serving the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, India. The airport has five operating terminals spread over an operational area of 750 hectares and handles more than 780 aircraft movements per day.
It is one of the two airports in India to have implemented Airport Collaborative Decision Making to ensure timely takeoffs and landings.
The airport is named after the 17th-century Maratha Emperor, Chhatrapati Shivaji. The airport consists of two passenger terminals: Terminal 1 at Santacruz for domestic flights and Terminal 2 at Sahar for international flights. While both terminals use the same airside facilities. The airport has two intersecting runways which can accommodate aircraft as big as the Airbus A380.
- It is the second busiest airport in the country in terms of passenger traffic and international traffic after Delhi.
- It is the 29th busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic.
- The airport is still the busiest in the country in terms of cargo traffic.
- It handled a record 51 movements in one hour on 16 September 2014.
- In 2011, it was ranked the third-best in the world in the 25–40 million passengers category.
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