Flight operations will resume from Delhi Airport Terminal 2 or T2 from October 1 after its six-month closure, the airport operator said on Monday.
Only Terminal 3, or T3, of the airport, has been in operation given the low frequency of flights since they resumed in May two months after their suspension on March 25 as part of radical measures to enforce social distancing to control the Covid-19 pandemic. Terminal 1 is expanding and remains closed.
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Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), the operator, said that the resumption of flight operations from T2 will be with 96 air traffic movements, 48 departures and 48 arrivals, daily. The moves are expected to rise to 180 by the end of October.
“The terminal [T2] will resume operations with IndiGo’s 2000 series flights and all GoAir operations in the initial phase. Some 27 counters have been created, 11 for GoAir and 16 for IndiGo, to serve passengers … The first scheduled flight from T2 after the reopening of this terminal would be the Indigo flight to Srinagar, which will depart at 6:25 AM, ”the airport operator said in a statement.
He added that to begin with, IndiGo will serve 20 destinations from T2. Destinations include Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Cochin, Guwahati, Indore, Jammu, Lucknow, Chennai, Patna, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, and Visakhapatnam.
“In the next phase, starting on October 8, [flights to] at least 12 more destinations, including Mumbai, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Hyderabad, Madurai, Jaipur and Nagpur, will start operating from T2, ”the statement said.
DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar ensured a safe and healthy environment for passengers. “We have implemented various measures at the airport to ensure the safety of passengers without compromising their comfort and experience. Our teams have worked around the clock to disinfect the vast terminal. DIAL will continue its awareness campaign educating and encouraging passengers to maintain social distance while they are at the airport ”.
An airport official said measures such as proper seating arrangement with social distancing markings, disinfection of high-touch surfaces and contactless outlets were taken to ensure passenger safety.
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