GoAir shifts base as revamped T-2 with 12 million annual capacity reopens today
With GoAir shifting to T-2, the terminal will be handling 47 departures a day. It will also see about 12,000 passengers per day and nine X-Ray machines have been installed for security checks.
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T-2 will reopen on Saturday after a seven-year gap. (Source: Express Photo/Abhinav Saha)
To ease the load on Terminal-1 (T-1) at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, GoAir airline has decided to shift its operation to Terminal-2 (T-2) from Saturday night. The Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), meanwhile, Friday made it clear that no airline will be able to start additional flights from terminal-1 for the next three years.
At a distance of less than 500 metres from the International T-3 and the Airport Metro station, the revamped T-2 will reopen on Saturday after a seven-year gap.
The renovated T-2 can handle 12 million passengers per annum, up from its earlier capacity of 9 million. “It can accommodate 2,500 passengers per hour. T-2 will have 27 parking bays for flights. It also has six aircraft contact gates or aerobridges, unlike T-1, which has none. There are 80 check-in counters, including eight for passengers with restricted mobility.
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With GoAir shifting to T-2, the terminal will be handling 47 departures a day. It will also see about 12,000 passengers per day and nine X-Ray machines have been installed for security checks. DIAL will provide free inter-terminal transfer facility between T-1 and T-2 for three months,” an officer said.
The New Terminal 2 Domestic Airport, New Delhi, before inaugtration for media preview on Friday, October 27, 2017. Express photo by Abhinav Saha.
GoAir, however, is the only airline that has agreed to shift its entire operations from T-1. While G8-148 from Ranchi will be the first to land at 10.05 pm Saturday, G-8 207 to Lucknow departing at 5.25am will be the first outward flight from T-2 on Sunday. Since January, after the T-2 became functional, DIAL has been locked in a face-off with SpiceJet and IndiGo after they refused to shift a third of their flights from T-1 to T-2 to allow expansion work at the existing terminal.
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport – rated among the best in the world – is all set to open a revamped Terminal 2 (T2) for domestic passengers.
“We will not give any new slots to any additional flight for the next three years for T-1. Even if airlines move some of their flights to the refurbished terminal, there will be no additional slots. The space vacated by airlines was required to carry out expansion work at T-1 and, therefore, it was not possible to accommodate new flights,” DIAL CEO I P Rao said. The deadline for shifting one-third of their operations has been extended for IndiGo and SpiceJet from October 29 to January 4.
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