Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) will quickly shut its Terminal 2 on account of falling passenger masses, an airport official mentioned, including that IndiGo and GoAir — which at the moment function from T2 — will transfer their flights to Terminal 3. T2 will stay closed indefinitely from 11.59pm, May 17.
The official mentioned that as of now, round 50 flights function from T2 every day. “Since the passenger numbers are low, moving operations to a single terminal will also help airlines reduce unnecessary manpower at airports,” he mentioned. With this, Delhi’s Terminal 3 would be the solely operational one.
Delhi Airport has thus joined Mumbai Airport in consolidating operations at a single terminal as a consequence of low passenger numbers.
Amid mounting instances within the second Covid wave that the nation is witnessing, air passenger numbers have fallen considerably, as have the variety of flights.
At 6.34 lakh, India’s air passenger numbers for the primary week of May was 67 per cent decrease than that of April. The variety of flights that operated on Monday, at 961, was the primary time it was under 1,000 flights a day since August.
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