Airport Metro not an option for passengers on 135 night flights

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi International Airport operates an average of 745 domestic as well as international flights per day. However, the high-speed Airport Metro services would not be available for passengers between 10 pm and 6 am — affecting around 2,000 passengers.
About 135 of the 745 flights operate between 10 pm and 6 am, airport officials say, adding that most of them are international ones. “The current aim of the Airport link service is to cater to domestic passengers. That’s also one reason why no international airline has been approached by the concessionaire so far. Meanwhile, domestic airlines are reluctant to provide passengers with the facility to directly check in their baggage through city terminals of the Metro link,” an airline official said. To end the impasse between the airlines and private operator Reliance Infra on handling responsibility for the check-in process, the Civil Aviation Ministry has proposed that passengers be charged for this additional service, rather than the airlines.
25/02/11 Geeta Gupta/Indian Express

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011