New Delhi Metro station will be like a mini airport

Spread across 4.30 lakh square feet, the New Delhi Metro station — the first stop for the high-speed Airport Express Line — will be like a mini airport terminal. It is unarguably the largest Metro station in city with facilities like high-end retail outlets, restaurants and food courts, airline check-in counters, flight information boards, jazzed up interiors, a plush waiting lounge and a fully-automated parking lot.
The station, the first City Airport Terminal (CAT) in the capital, will bring the airport to the heart of the city as it will allow passengers boarding the high-speed trains to the airport to check-in their baggage and get boarding passes right at the Metro station. All they need to do after this is board a train that will take them to IGI in flat 20 minutes, clear immigration and security checks and finally board their flight. Their baggage will be loaded onto the flights directly.
To handle the huge passenger loads, the station will have over 80 airline counters. Though at present, very few airlines have agreed to set up check-in counters at CAT, the matter is being pursued at the government level and more airlines are expected to come forward before the Games.
09/09/10 Megha Suri Singh/Times of India

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