The largest infrastructure development project in India post independence, the Delhi International Airport, witnessed a growth of 7.3 per cent in traffic over the previous year. The airport handled a total of 36.7 million passengers in 2013. The airport’s terminals collectively boast of a total capacity of a whopping 62 million passengers annually, including the 34 million passengers that the state-of-the-art T3 caters to individually.
“We credit this boost to our airline partners. Domestic carriers have added several new routes and accentuated frequencies on existing metro and non-metro routes. Existing international carriers have also increased frequencies. Besides, we had new carriers starting up service as well from Delhi,” said I Prabhakara Rao, CEO, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL).
Several new international airlines, such as Mihin Lanka and Kyrgyz Air among others, have added Delhi in their network. Melbourne, Sydney and Birmingham, are some of the new points now connected to Delhi. Besides, a host of new domestic routes have also been added, including flights to Imphal, Trivandrum, Khajuraho, Dibrugarh and Varanasi.
Read news in full 27/05/14 Shayan Mallick/T3
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