Rail station to Delhi airport in 16 minutes

New Delhi: Land in Delhi and “take off” again — this time in the Metro. A 90-minute drive to the capital’s airport from the city centre became a 16-minute breeze with the Metro connecting the two points today, but without the much-awaited baggage check-in facility that has been promised in two weeks.
Delhi has now joined cities like London, Hong Kong, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur to have a high-speed link connecting their city centres with their airports.
Trains on the 20km corridor from New Delhi station to Indira Gandhi International Airport’s (IGI) Terminal 3 will run every 20 minutes for 16 hours everyday, from 6am to 10pm, at a dizzy 105km per hour. The speed may be raised to 120km if the Research, Designs and Standard Organisation, a railway ministry unit, flashes the green signal. It takes between 60 and 90 minutes now to cover the distance whether by cabs and buses.
Terminal 3 is part of the international airport, from where fliers can reach the domestic wing in 10-15 minutes in shuttles run by the airport. A customer-care helpline — 011-30802080 — also started working from 2pm today.
23/02/11 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011