Delhi flight check-in, but at Metro station

New Delhi: Ravi Kumar was to catch a flight to Patna today. He checked in at New Delhi Metro station.
Baggage check-in for fliers finally began on the Delhi Airport Metro line, nearly four months after the partly-elevated track turned a 90-minute drive from the city centre to the capital's airport into a 16-minute breeze.
The 20km corridor from New Delhi station to Indira Gandhi International Airport had opened on February 23, but minus the much-awaited baggage check-in facility.
That wait ended at 3 this afternoon.
The check-in service had been delayed as airlines and the Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited couldn’t reach an agreement over fees airlines would pay the firm owned by a Reliance Infrastructure-led consortium for the facility.
The counters are an additional cost on the airlines that don’t charge passengers extra for the service. Finally, three airlines agreed but not before the civil aviation ministry stepped in.
Air India, Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways have set up two counters each at the New Delhi and Shivaji Stadium stations in central Delhi. The facility will be extended to Dhaula Kuan station, in south-west Delhi, when it opens later this year.
11/06/11 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Jun 2011