Delhi airport: New facility to be created for VVIP special aircraft
New Delhi: A new 28-acre facility would be created at the Indira Gandhi International Airport for housing the new Boeing 777 wide-bodied aircraft which will be used for ferrying the VVIPs including the President, Vice President, and Prime Minister, for both domestic and international travel.
“The new 28-acre facility is planned to be raised at the IGI airport where the new aircraft with call sign ‘Air Force One’ would be kept and maintained,” government sources told ANI.
The agencies concerned, including the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Indian Air Force, Delhi International Airport Limited and GMR group, are learned to be in talks to set up the state-of-the-art facility.
