Delhi Airport is expanding! IGI airport to have 4 runways, facial recognition, self-baggage drop; top 10 facts
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport is expanding – with more flights, better passenger services convenience and seamless connectivity! India’s busiest airport, the IGI airport, in the national capital will be made future-ready soon, according to the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL). With an additional runway, more state-of-the-art facilities, and enhanced passenger handling capacity, the upgradation process of Delhi International Airport (DEL) will be completed by June 2022, DIAL has said.
Delhi IGI Airport expansion: Top facts passengers should know
1. DIAL, that runs the Delhi Airport, has exuded confidence that passenger handling capacity will go up to 100 million passengers per annum (MPPA) by 2022. It said that once the project is completed airside handling capacity would go up to handle 140 MPPA. To simply put things, DIAL has stated that in the future, the Delhi airport would be able to handle 140 million passengers per annum. In 2018, Delhi Airport handled 69.8 MPPA, as per official data released by DIAL.
