Mohali Airport Road to Get Six New Flyovers

Mohali's Airport Road, officially designated PR-7, is set for a major infrastructure overhaul. Mohali Municipal Corporation plans to transform Mohali Airport Road into a freeway to ease traffic congestion, with the project involving construction of six flyovers along the 14 km stretch from Kharar to the airport crossing. These flyovers will replace 13 existing traffic intersections that currently choke the corridor during peak hours.

The scale of the problem is well documented locally. A Sector 66-A resident, whose home sits just six kilometres from Shahid Bhagat Singh International Airport, described the situation bluntly: the distance from home to the airport takes 15 to 20 minutes on a good day, but between 6 and 7 most evenings, it literally stops for over an hour, sometimes more, as traffic backs up along the lone approach road to the airport. A parallel plan for six flyovers between Kharar and the airport crossing, meant to convert the stretch into a freeway, remains in its early phases.

GMADA's approach isn't limited to elevated crossings alone. To improve traffic flow on internal roads, the Mohali Municipal Corporation will also build roundabouts at key intersections, with officials emphasizing the need for smooth transit between Kharar and Airport Chowk. The project will be implemented in phases, with a primary focus on constructing the flyovers first. Once complete, elevating traffic at these points aims to create uninterrupted travel paths, easing congestion and improving the driving experience for commuters.

This corridor carries far more than local traffic. Airport Road (PR-7) is the only route available to traffic from both Punjab and Haryana, carrying airport-bound commuters, Aerocity and IT City residents, freight vehicles, Zirakpur and New Chandigarh traffic, and through-traffic heading toward Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh — all on one corridor. The stretch runs past institutions that have reshaped Mohali's identity — NIPER, IISER, NABI, STPI, a state medical college and the Indian School of Business, around which has risen an altogether new skyline of IT City, Aerocity, shopping malls, corporate hospitals and high-rises.

GMADA isn't relying on the flyovers alone. A separate, Punjab-funded alternate corridor — the Airport Link Road — is also in the pipeline. Sectors 65 and 66 sit directly along this new alignment and see the most immediate benefit, while Aerocity, Sector 67–70 and IT City gain from improved overall airport access. Once operational, PR-7 will continue operating as the primary corridor, but a meaningful share of traffic will shift to the new alternate route, reducing congestion and improving travel-time reliability on both roads. Separately, the Bharatmala-funded expressway linking IT City Chowk to Ambala is also progressing, with Package 2, the Mohali-Kurali stretch, already functional in December 2025, while Package 1 from IT Chowk to Ambala was proposed to be operational in March-May 2026.

For homebuyers, the timing matters as much as the promise. Real estate along this belt has already priced in a chunk of the upside: built-up flats in Aerocity are running at around Rs 9,153 a square foot now, up roughly 7 percent on the quarter. Institutional appetite is equally telling — the March 2026 GMADA auction saw 37 of 42 properties sell, generating ₹3,136.97 crore and exceeding reserve prices by 55 percent, underscoring institutional confidence in the Aerocity corridor. Over a longer horizon, land rates in Aerocity have appreciated over 400 percent in the past decade, according to data observed on property portals, making it one of the strongest performers in Punjab real estate.

That said, buyers should treat the freeway conversion as a multi-year rollout rather than an imminent fix. The alternative route remains a work in progress; the flyover meant to ease the crush is still a dream for daily commuters today. Anyone evaluating a home or plot along PR-7, Aerocity, or IT City should factor in construction-phase disruption on the road itself before the long-term connectivity gains materialise — a pattern typical of large civic works in fast-growing corridors like this one.