The new terminal at the rebuilt Mumbai international airport has put it in the category of one of the finest airports in the country. The father-son duo of GVK Group behind Terminal-2 tell The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, on NDTV 24X7’s Walk the Talk, about the problems they faced, and the art that puts their airport apart

On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Architexturez-IN wrote:

While MIAL is tightlipped about the finer details, Newsline has learnt that the design drawn up by MIAL’s master planners—Netherlands Airports Consultants BV (NACO)—has now been trashed and swapped for a fresh blueprint executed by the New York office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), one of the largest architectural firms in the US.

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Now, the peacock-inspired design handpicked by MIAL Managing Director G V Sanjay Reddy himself of the terminal building has been drastically changed since it was a “compromise on efficiency and aesthetics”.

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“The main reason for changing the design was that the number of gates (boarding bridges) was not adequate in the earlier design—we only had 106 aircraft parking bays in all, with 67 nose-in bays. This would greatly limit and slow down our passenger processing capacity,” revealed a top MIAL official requesting anonymity.

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http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Mumbai-airport-opts-for-fresh-blueprint/217074/