AI may be first to move into IGI’s new terminal

New Delhi: Air India might be the first airline to move into the new integrated-terminal, T3, when it becomes operational in April 2010. The terminal is near completion and Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd (DIAL) officials say that by March 31, the building will be ready. Full operations are likely to commence by July 1.
Sources said that talks are on with Air India for it to move both its international and domestic operations to the terminal in April itself and take part in the operational readiness and airport transfer (ORAT) trials that will be carried out for three months before the terminal is opened to all other airlines. By the time it is functional, it will house all international airlines and the full-cost carriers. The new domestic departure terminal will then function as the first exclusive low-cost carrier terminal in the country.
According to DIAL officials, most of the construction work is now over at T3 and finish touches are being given to the interiors. A team of officials from the ministry, NHAI, DJB, Delhi Transco and directorate general of civil aviation visited the site on Wednesday and were reportedly quite happy with the way the building had shaped up.
04/12/09 Neha Lalchandani/Times of India

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