Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB) is the primary international airport serving Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra, and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The airport is located approximately 22 kilometres north of downtown Mumbai, spread across the suburbs of Santacruz and Sahar Village in Vile Parle East, covering around 1,900 acres.
The airport was initially built in 1930 as RAF Santacruz and was a Royal Air Force station during World War II. It was renamed from “Sahar Airport” to “Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport” in 1999, with the title “Maharaj” inserted on 30 August 2018. The airport is named after Shivaji (1630–1680), the 17th-century Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire. It is operated by Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), a joint venture between Adani Airport Holdings Limited (74%) and the Airports Authority of India (26%).
BOM is the second-busiest airport in India in terms of total and international passenger traffic after Delhi, the 14th-busiest airport in Asia, and the 28th-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2025. It is also the world’s busiest single-runway airport, featuring a unique cross-runway configuration with two asphalt runways (09/27 at 3,445 m and 14/32 at 2,925 m), catering to nearly 1,000 air traffic movements every day.
In the fiscal year April 2025 – March 2026, the airport handled 55,290,095 passengers (a 0.3% increase), 331,756 aircraft movements (a 0.5% increase), and 927,499.4 tonnes of cargo (a 4.2% increase). The airport became the first in India and third in the world to achieve Level 5 accreditation for Airport Customer Experience from Airports Council International (ACI) in December 2024. In March 2025, passengers voted Mumbai International Airport the “Best Airport Over 40 Million Passengers” in Asia Pacific for the eighth consecutive year.