DIAL to take a call on shifting LCCs to T3 in January

Low-cost carriers (LCCs) would continue their domestic operations out of Terminal 1D, the existing domestic terminal, of Indira Gandhi International Airport. IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir, the budget carriers, were scheduled to shift to the new integrated terminal T3 by next March.
But the domestic operations of full-service carriers (FSCs) — Air India, Jet Airways and its low-cost subsidiaries JetLite and Jet Konnect, and Kingfisher Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Kingfisher Red — will shift to T3 by mid-November as per the schedule.
"We will take a call on shifting LCCs to T3 in January next year," said a senior Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) executive, who did not want to be identified.
"T3, with an annual capacity to handle 34 million passengers, will handle 20 million passengers after the domestic operations of FSCs shift to the new terminal and if LCCs shift to the new terminal, almost all our capacity will get exhausted."
DIAL, the airport operator, handles about 26 million passengers annually. Of this, LCCs account for 12 million passengers. Now, T3 caters only to international traffic, which is around 4.54 million passengers per annum — much less than its capacity.
04/11/10 Mihir Mishra/Business Standard/Sify.com

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