Thanks to IGI mess, Noida airport may become a reality

New Delhi: The international airport at Greater Noida may end up becoming a reality after all — and not because of a push from the Uttar Pradesh government led by Mayawati but thanks to a growing realisation at the Centre that their plans for capacity addition at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in the capital has almost fallen flat.
The civil aviation ministry officials and the Planning Commission were in for a rude shock on Monday, when during a review meeting on the modernization of the New Delhi international airport, they found that IGI’s expansion, decongestion and modernization plans cleared by the Cabinet about a year back, have already proven insufficient.
Following the stock taking done by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday, the authorities realised that there is hardly any space left for expansion and no amount of changes in the design can do away the long queues at the immigration counters or at the baggage check-in counters which have always been there. They would need to set up a completely new structure to handle the burgeoning traffic at the airport.
14/05/08 Oineetom Ojah/Financial Express

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Categories: Airports May 2008