In a first, Mumbai airport handles 1,000 flight movements in one day

Being located in the business hub of the country, Mumbai airport is understandably one of the busiest air spaces in the country. There are a huge number of infrastructural problems that it has to battle with on a daily basis, but even then it has been able to deploy one of the most efficient management systems to control the heavy air traffic. Due to this superlative effort, the capacity-constrained Mumbai airport for the first time crossed 1,000 aircraft movements in just a day, breaking its earlier record of 988 single-day arrivals and departures.
 
Talking about this feat, a Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) spokesperson said, "Mumbai airport has achieved 1,003 aircraft movement in 24-hour period yesterday," adding that it was the highest-ever traffic handled by the airport in a single day.
 
Mumbai International Airport, which is a joint venture between the GVK group and the Airports Authority of India, runs the country's second busiest airport. 
 
If we take into consideration and its achievement, the single-runway operated Mumbai airport has handled 48.49 million passengers in FY18, registering a 7.4 per cent growth over FY17.
 
Not only this, with merely two crossing runways - 09/27 (the main) and 14/32 (the secondary runway), Mumbai airport also provides adequate space for full service carrier Jet Airways and budget airline GoAir.
 
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The example of efficient management is that the primary runway is able to handle up to 48 arrivals and departures per hour, while the secondary runway has a capacity of 35 flight movements per hour.