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Mumbai International Airport Terminal Ultimate Dubai Airport national geographic Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) (IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB), formerly Sahar International Airport, is the primary international airport serving the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, India. It is the second busiest airport in the country in terms of passenger traffic and international traffic after Delhi, and was the 35th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2015 according to Airports Council International. The airport is the busiest in the country in terms of cargo traffic.[6] The airport has five operating terminals spread over an operational area of 750 hectares (1,850 acres)[7] and handles more than 780 aircraft movements per day. It handled a record 51 movements in one hour on 16 September 2014.[8] It won the 2015 ASQ Best Airport Award in the 25-40 million passengers per annum category by Airports Council International.[9] It has also won the "Best Airport in India and Central Asia" award at the Skytrax 2016 World Airport Awards.[10] It is one of the two airports in India to have implemented Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) to ensure timely takeoffs and landings.[11] The airport is operated by Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), a Joint Venture between the Airports Authority of India and the GVK Industries Ltd led consortium[12] which was appointed in February 2006 to carry out the modernisation of the Airport.[13] The new integrated terminal T2 was inaugurated on 10 January 2014[14] and opened for international operations on 12 February 2014.[15] A dedicated six lane, elevated road connecting the new terminal with the main arterial Western Express Highway[16] was also opened to the public the same day.[17] The airport is named after the 17th-century Maratha emperor, Chhatrapati Shivaji and its IATA airport code – "BOM" – is derived from Bombay, Mumbai's former name. It is situated across the suburbs of Santacruz, Vile Parle and Sahar village in Andheri with the PIN code 400099.[18] The Juhu Aerodrome functioned as Mumbai's sole airport until 1942.[citation needed] Due to operational constraints imposed by its low-level location and proximity to the Arabian Sea coastline making it vulnerable during the monsoon season, a move further inland became necessary.[citation needed] RAF Santacruz was set up in 1942. It was a bigger airfield than Juhu and was home to several RAF squadrons during World War II from 1942 to 1947.[19] The Airport covered an area of about 1,500 acres (610 ha) and initially had three runways.[20] The apron existed on the south side of runway 09/27, and the area, referred to today as the "Old Airport", houses, among others, maintenance hangars of Air India, Air Works India and MIAL's General Aviation Terminal. The land of Sahar Airport originally belonged to Bombay’s sons-of-soil indigenous East Indian Community. The land was originally taken by the British "for war purposes" with the explicit promise to be returned after the war (World War 2). Many of the East Indian Community were forced to give their lands, much of it was never used but never returned to original owners. The Sahar Airport today is used commercially but the original owners have not been given any incentive or privilege. The demand of compensation or return of lands as originally promised has been neglected by the authorities. By 1946, when the RAF began the process of handing over the airfield to the Director General of Civil Aviation for Civil operations,[21] two old abandoned hangars of the Royal Air Force had been converted into a terminal for passenger traffic. One hangar was used as a domestic terminal and the other for international traffic. It had counters for customs and immigration checks on either side and a lounge in the centre. Air India handled its passengers in its own terminal adjoining the two hangars.[20] In its first year, it handled six civilian services a day. Traffic at the airport increased after Karachi was partitioned to Pakistan and as many as 40 daily domestic and foreign services operated by 1949, prompting the Indian Government to develop the airport, equipping the airport with a night landing system comprising a Radio range and a modernised flare path lighting system[22] Construction of a new passenger terminal and apron began in 1950 and was commissioned in 1958.[20] Named after the neighbourhood in which it stood and initially under the aegis of the Public Works Department, the new airport was subsequently run by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)