India is seeing a massive aviation boom
New airports, hundreds of aircraft and millions of new passengers are on their way
THE VENOMOUS snakes that infest the new airport rising near Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, are only a minor inconvenience compared with what has already been overcome at the site. Some 8,000 workers, labouring around the clock, have blasted away 55m cubic metres of rock, diverted a river and drained swamps. Seven local villages have been acquired and 3,113 families moved. Work on the airport began in 2021 and is due to be completed by late 2024. That is fast by global standards and in India unprecedented.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “India takes wing”
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