Domestic travel from T3 only from Oct 28

New Delhi: Domestic passengers using the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi will be able to use the new Terminal-3 (T3) only from October 28, a few weeks after the Commonwealth Games are over. The Games will conclude on October 14.
The civil aviation ministry believes that the new terminal will not be able cater to the increased passenger numbers, if the domestic flights shift to T3.
“If the domestic flights shift, T3 will not be able to cater to the increased number and affect the experience of the overseas travellers coming for the Games. It has now been decided to shift the operations from October 28,” said a ministry official who did not want to be identified.
Full-service carriers like Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, along with their low-cost subsidiaries JetLite and Kingfisher Red, were to shift to the new terminal first by mid-July and then by August-end.
This shift was deferred after Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel visited T3 last month and found out that the terminal was not capable of handling domestic operations. The date was then extended from August 27 to a date which was to be decided after a review in mid-September.
03/09/10 Mihir Mishra/Business Standard

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