AirIndia From United Arab Emirates, joined Jan 2001, 1546 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 2 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
In the news today:
AAI wants to revive Juhu airport and use the runway. They propose to grab the exisiting juhu-tara road area along the juhu beach front also They plan to ask BMC to construct the road under ground beneath the airport.
1. is this feasible.
2. if it goes ahead and commercial traffic starts, wouldn't it be similar to Princess Julliana, St Maarten. Would love to have that view...
VictorTango From India, joined Jan 2005, 500 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1053 times:
Good idea! I suppose the Juhu airport will be used for private aircraft operators. Are they planning to extend the runway? What's the largest aircraft that can land at Juhu?
Quoting AirIndia (Thread starter): They plan to ask BMC to construct the road under ground beneath the airport.
How do they plan to do that??? First of all, is that possible?
B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1050 times:
This has got to be the stupidest idea I have ever seen.
I'd much prefer shutting down the entire airport and building a cross-airport road in the Nanavati Hospital area to link Linking Road with Juhu beach. That would help traffic flow immensely. Right now Juhu airport is a big plot of prime land sitting underutilized and taking up space.
Mumbai needs a second airport but IMHO it is best served by building a greenfield somewhere out in Navi Mumbai with strong intermodal transportation links (rail/highway network for freight, fast ferry to Nariman Point, etc...) than expanding Juhu, whose airspace overlaps with the international airport anyway.
VictorTango From India, joined Jan 2005, 500 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1031 times:
Quoting B747-437B (Reply 2): Mumbai needs a second airport but IMHO it is best served by building a greenfield somewhere out in Navi Mumbai with strong intermodal transportation links (
Personally I doubt they'd ever use Juhu for aircraft other than private operators'. So I don't really think they'd go in for a full fledged expansion.
Guru any links to that report.
Karan69 From India, joined Oct 2004, 2784 posts, RR: 19 Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 6 days ago) and read 976 times:
The new airport is already under construction, as not too long ago my friend was driving from Mumbai to Goa and happened to pass
"the huge site with New Mumbai Airport written and construction was in progress"
Jasepl From India, joined Jul 2004, 3582 posts, RR: 44 Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 months 6 days ago) and read 968 times:
If this is true, they should have thought of it before they moved the parking lot!
It's now across the road from where it used to be and they've taken away a chunk of the airport to make room for it.
And Bombay really does not need a new airport. They really do need to bring all the terminals down and start from scratch. We might be the busiest in the entire region, but O'Hare we ain't. Besides, the advantaged of being in the middle of the city are immense.
Karan69 From India, joined Oct 2004, 2784 posts, RR: 19 Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 6 days ago) and read 961 times:
Just think of the traffic conditions that will prevail on the already congested Ville parle and juhu roads--if such a thing in anyones wildest dreams does take place
I am unable to gain access to TOIs onlne edition. but if you pickup a copy of TOI of saturday, its there in the mumbai section. complete with diagrams also. in the mean time i will try to find the link...
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