With T3, Delhi airport takes off for global high

New Delhi: “It rarely happens that the same minister who presides over the bhoomipujan (ceremonial inauguration) of a project, also presides over its inauguration,” Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Saturday after Delhi Airport’s new Terminal 3 (T3) was opened.
Patel was alluding to the usually protracted process of completion of an official project.
Completed within a record time of 37 months, T3 was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday. Flight operations at the brand new terminal will begin from July 14.
International airlines will be first to shift to T3, with the first flight out of T3 being Air India’s direct New York-Delhi flight (AI 102) at 4.45 pm on July 14. Most domestic airlines will shift on July 30-31.
To celebrate the opening of T3, Emirates Airlines might fly in Airbus A-380 to T3 later in July, sources at the airport said.
03/07/10 Hindustan Times

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