Full-scale commercial operations at T3 from Wednesday
The full-scale commercial flight operations at the swanky newly-integrated T3 terminal of the IGI airport in Delhi will begin from Wednesday with all airlines shifting their operations. The Air India flight from New York will be the first to arrive.
“The airlines will shift their operations to T3 from 2 pm on Wednesday. We have chosen Wednesday to shift from T2 to T3, because on this day there are least number of flights between 2 pm to 7.30 pm,” Andrew Harrison, chief operating officer, DIAL, said.
Passengers of Air India’s flight (AI-102) from JFK New York would be the first to arrive at the world’s sixth largest airport, when its commercial operations begin, he said, adding that Air India’s Jaipur-Delhi-Dubai flight (IC-895) would be the first flight to take-off from here.
AI-102 will arrive at T3 at 4.45 pm while IC-895 would depart for Dubai at 6.50 pm.
Tomorrow, all the international flights would arrive at T2 till 4.45 pm, but after the departure of Gulf Air flight (GF-135) to Bahrain at 6.05 pm, all the operations at T2 will be shifted to the new terminal.
“Check-in for the first departing flight (IC-895) from T3 would begin from 2.50 pm and, all the facilities like food and beverage counters, shops and other facilities would also start functioning from Wednesday itself,” Harrison said.
He also assured that T3 would provide seamless connectivity to the international and domestic passengers with world-class experience after three full service carriers — Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher — also shift their domestic operations from August 27.
“It will be a hub like the airports in Dubai, Changi in Singapore, from where passengers like to fly to other destinations, as T3 would truly transform the experience of those travelling to and from India,” he added.
On the first day of the operations, around 90 flights would operate from T3, of which around 50 would be foreign airlines.
DIAL had pushed back the operation date of T3, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 3, by a fortnight to provide more time to all stakeholders to deal with any glitches, including setting up of airline offices, synchronising security procedures, baggage handling and the whole range of airport operations.
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