An elevated six-lane road from the Western Expressway in Mumbai will get you to the international airport in half the time it takes today.
An automated mini-train will make it easier for passengers to shuttle between the domestic and international terminals.
And parking will no longer be a problem -- you can drive up the multi-storied parkway and even have a sumptuous dinner in one of the two five-star hotels within the airport complex.
With its electronic walkways and even a small golf course, Delhi's airport might give you a feel of Singapore's Changi airport. If you are taking the Delhi Metro to the airport, you can check in at the station with your baggage in Connaught Place rather than in the airport.
For those who want to travel by the A-380, the world's largest aircraft, the good news is it will be able to land in both airports.
However, for all these goodies you will have to wait a while longer. By 2010, both airports are expected to complete their first phase and be up and running. GMR Infrastructure, which bagged the Delhi airport and the GVK Group (Mumbai), are working to submit master plans on October 4.
"The airport will be a completely new building with better facilities. We are seeing how it can be built according to the time-table of 2010," said a source working on the development of the Delhi airport.
The Delhi airport will have a new terminal for domestic as well as international flights.
The modernisation of the Delhi airport is expected to cost about Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) over the next 15 years.
In the first phase, to be executed over a five-year period, the investment will be Rs 2,800 crore (Rs 28 billion). Mumbai airport (where the existing infrastructure will be expanded) will be able to cater to 40 million passengers a year -- nearly double the current capacity.
The investment tag is Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion) -- Rs 5,800 crore (Rs 58 billion) in the first phase. The Delhi airport will have the capacity to handle double the number of passengers it currently does -- about 35 million. That can go up to 100 million after 2015.
There is more good news for passengers. They will not have to wait long at check-in counters. In Mumbai, for instance, 150 check-in counters at various levels are to be set up, nearly double of what the airport currently has.
Also, you will no longer need buses to ferry you to aircraft. Delhi has only seven aerobridges now. But this number will go up to 30 after the first phase.
According to the development plan, the Delhi airport will have four runways. In the first two years itself, a parallel runway will be established in Delhi to ease traffic congestion.
The Mumbai airport is also considering a cross-runway or a parallel runway.
