Updated On: 18 November, 2025 03:29 PM IST | Navi Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The first outbound service—IndiGo 6E882 to Hyderabad—will take off at 8.40 am. In its first month, the airport will function for 12 hours every day, starting 8 am. It will handle 23 scheduled departures and up to 10 aircraft movements per hour

From February 1, NMIA will switch to round-the-clock operations and scale up to 34 daily departures. File pic
The Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) will begin commercial operations on December 25, with IndiGo operating both the first arrival and the first departure from the much-awaited greenfield facility, airport authorities announced on Monday.
According to the latest operational plan, the inaugural flight into NMIA will be IndiGo 6E460 from Bengaluru, scheduled to land at 8 am on Christmas Day.