After six months of closure in the wake of covid-19 outbreak, air operations at Terminal-2 will begin from October 1. Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) on Monday announced that the terminal is all set to provide a safe and healthy environment to passengers flying out of Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).
The resumption of operations at T-2 will be with 96 air traffic movements (48 departures and 48 arrivals) per day and increase progressively up to 180 by end of October, a DIAL official said.
The terminal will resume operations with IndiGo’s 2000 series flights and entire operations of GoAir in the initial phase. About 27 counters – 11 for GoAir and 16 for IndiGo - have been created to cater to the passengers of respective flights. The first flight scheduled from T2 after reopening of this terminal would be Srinagar bound Indigo flight, which will depart at 6:25 AM, the official added.
Explaining more on air operations, a DIAL official said, “To start with, IndiGo will cater to 20 destinations from T2.
These will cater to 20 destinations from T2, including Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Cochin, Guwahati, Indore, Jammu, Lucknow, Chennai, Patna, Srinagar, Trivandrum, and Visakhapatnam among others. In the next phase, from October 8, 2020, 12 more destinations, including Mumbai, Kolkata, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Hyderabad, Madurai, Jaipur, and Nagpur, will start operating from T2.”
“Delhi Airport is all set to reopen for domestic flight operations at T2 after six-months shutdown. We would like to assure passengers that at Delhi airport, they would be in a safe and healthy environment. We have implemented several measures at the airport to ensure passenger safety without compromising their comfort and experience. ,”said Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, CEO-DIAL.
For the entry into airport at T2 10 Scan and Fly and 3 CUSS kiosks will be available for passengers for web check-in before entering the terminal. To avoid close contact and crowding at the counters, passengers are encouraged to use the e-boarding facility at Check-in point, the official added.
"About 10 e-boarding kiosks have been set up at the entry gates, 8 at the main security hold area (SHA) and 4 at the Express Check-in lane, which would be operational after a few weeks.The SHA has been expanded to make adequate seating arrangements and retail options", he said
Alongside, UV Tunnels have been deployed at every dispatch baggage belt in the departure area for sanitization of check-in bags
It may be noted that commercial operations of domestic and international flights were suspended from March 24, in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the country.
The development has come after a successful resumption of Terminal 3 that began operations in a calibrated manner from May 25.
