NEW DELHI: When Air France flight AF 218 landed in Mumbai on Tuesday at 11.54 pm, it created history for
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) by becoming this old aviation hub’s first ever 1000th flight in a day. The big storm that swept Mumbai late on Monday night saw over 25 incoming flights being diverted to other cities. Once the weather improved around Monday-Tuesday midnight, they started taking off for Mumbai and this “spill over” saw
CSIA clocking up 1,003 flight movements on Tuesday. IndiGo’s flight from Kolkata (6E-961), which touched down there at 11.58 pm, was the last flight of that super busy day.
The previous record for the airport was 988 flight movements on May 19, which was an improvement over 980 flights witnessed on February 10. The average daily
flight movement is 950.