New Delhi, August 23: In view of the growing footfall at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, GMR Group-led Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) on Tuesday announced that it will expand the passenger handling capacity of two operational terminals which is believed to handle up to 119 million passengers. To make way for the T1 expansion project that starts next year in March, DIAL has asked airlines operating from T1 to partially shift their operations to T2 from October. DIAL also said that it would also recommission operations at terminal-2 and build a new runway by 2021. If you are planning to travel to Delhi or via Delhi to some other place, be ready for some confusion at your terminal as operations will see a shift from this October.
As of now, Delhi’s IGI has two operational terminals- T1 and T3. Operations at T2 were stopped in 2010. Out of the two, operations at T1 are beyond its capacity while T3 is also congested due to an increase in number of flights. The expansion activities are part of the master plan, which would be implemented in three phases starting from 2018-2021 period. This means that the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) will get a new integrated terminal like T3 by 2021, under the facility’s next phase of planned expansion. If reports are to be believed, the expansion will start next year and the airport will be expanded in three phases- phase 3A (2018-21), 3B (2021-25) and Phase 4 (2026 onwards).
