Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) (IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB), formerly Sahar International Airport, is the primary international airport in Mumbai, India, and is named after the 17th century Maratha Emperor, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosle. The Airport's IATA code – "BOM", is derived from Bombay, Mumbai's former name.
The airport is the second busiest airport in India in terms of overall passenger traffic. The airport has five operating terminals spread over an operational area of 1,500 acres (610 ha); CSIA handled 30.74 million passengers and 656,369 tonnes of cargo during FY 2011-12.
Along with Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, it handles more than half of the air traffic in South Asia. In 2010, CSIA airport was ranked the 30th busiest airport in the world in terms of cargo with 671,238 tonnes handled. In 2011, the airport was ranked the third-best in the world in the 25–40 million passengers category by Airports Council International.
Also in 2011, the airport was the 44th busiest in the world with 30,439,122 passengers handled, registering a 7.6% growth rate over the previous year.
The airport is one amongst a few airports in the world to be located within the city's municipal limits. It is situated in the suburb of Santa Cruz and the Sahar neighbourhood of Andheri suburb in the pincode area of 400099.
Mumbai International Airport Limited, a consortium of GVK Industries Ltd, Airports Company South Africa and Bidvest, was appointed to carry out the modernisation of Mumbai Airport in February 2006.
This project was to be completed by end of 2013, but this has been delayed by another year to the end of 2014. Once completed, CSIA will be capable of handling 40 million passengers and 1 million metric tonnes of cargo annually.
The construction of a dedicated six lane, elevated road connecting the new terminal with the main arterial Western Express Highway is underway.
Features
All major airport buildings included with high resolution textures and beautiful textures in the night time.
Extremely detailed taxiways and runways.
Custom made lines, taxiway and taxi lights.
Custom Gmax ground texture from satellite photos will make you feel like being in the real airport
I agree with everyone else, a great airport with excellent textures and eye-candy as always from Thai Creation. Great to see an airport sadly neglected by designers in the past. Who will be the first to finally release ZBAA?
India has been a bit neglected it seems. This is a great addition to my long haul flights. I've never been to Mumbai in real life but there is an atmosphere to this product that I really like. The airport itself is a quite cool and hectic place and lots of the rendition of the airport and surroundings have a great tone. My only problem is the night textures and the overall low texture rendition. The roof tops are quite blurry and some terminal buildings look better than others. It seems like an kind of easy to fix problem really, but it's there and it can be a bit frustrating when the product is so great in so many other ways. Like taxing for example, it's a joy, from the VC to see the surrounding areas and all the details and you can kind of feel the spirit of the place. And then you see the rooftops and blurry textures and you think that; well…
So yes, I totally recommend this product but beware that if you are a visual geek than you might be a bit frustrated how close it is to be not only really good, but great.
FInally, someone took the inititive to make a REALLY good VABB scenery! I have been looking for years for VABB (a good one) and I have found in Thai Creation. Well done and look forward to updates to the terminal in the future. HIGHLY RECOMMEMDED!!!!
Yes! I do not hesitate to give five stars. Very nice add-on I bought from TC. Thank you for your supporting FS2004 and wish you make new airport much faster....
What is your next destination??? I wish it could be Manila international airport~~