Along with IGI Delhi, it was adjudged the "World's Best Airport" at Airport Service Quality Awards 2017 in the highest category of airports handling more than 40 million passengers annually by Airports Council International. It handled a record 51 movements in one hour on 16 September 2014. It handled a record 1,007 aircraft movements on 9 December 2018, higher than its earlier record of 1,003 flight movements in a day in June 2018. The airport has two operating terminals spread over a total land area of 750 hectares (1,850 acres) and handles about 950 aircraft movements per day.
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The airport's IATA code BOM is associated with "Bombay", the city's former legal name. This was later surpassed again by Gatwick Airport at the end of 2019 due to passenger numbers falling at Mumbai. In March 2017, the airport surpassed London's Gatwick Airport as the world's busiest to operate a single runway at a time. It is also the second busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic.
Its passenger traffic was about 49.8 million in year 2018. It is the second busiest airport in the country in terms of total and international passenger traffic after Delhi, and was the 14th busiest airport in Asia and 41st busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in calendar year 2019. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport ( छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ) ( IATA: BOM, ICAO: VABB) is the primary international airport serving Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.