Chandigarh: Passengers continue to turn up at old airport terminal

He said that passengers also miss their flights sometimes in this process . “We then accommodate them in other flights,” he said.

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Vijay, a resident of Manipur, who was to take a flight scheduled at 12.30 pm for New Delhi, reached the old terminal around 11.50 am. As soon he and his friends alighted of an autorickshaw, an airport official asked them to go to the new terminal. “I did not know about the new terminal,” Vijay told Chandigarh Newsline.

An official at the old airport told Chandigarh Newsline that around 40-50 passengers report to the old airport daily.
What also add to the confusion are the signboards of the old airport in several areas of the city, which are yet to be removed by the UT Administration. These signboards direct commuters to the old terminal.

“I was aware of the new terminal. But we followed the directions and we reached the old airport,” said Tarun, who had come from Jalandhar to drop his cousin at the airport.

Sunil Dutt, CEO, Chandigarh International Airport, said, “We have been informing people about the new terminal,” adding that he had not received any reports about anyone reporting late to the new terminal.