NEW DELHI AIRPORT EXPANDS TO ACCOMMODATE TRAFFIC TO AND FROM ITS GROWING INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS

THE AIRPORT serving India’s capital, New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), has been under pressure from a boom in passenger traffic, and so is being expanded and revamped in a project that will cost USD1.3 billion, according to Indian aviation industry sources. (NOTE TO EDITOR – THIS IS NOT IN DIAL DOCUMENTS – BUT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED OFF THE RECORD BY A DIAL OFFICIAL) Already spread over 2,066 hectares on the southern edge of the city, construction crews have been building a fourth runway, an elevated taxiway, while revamping its Terminal ...


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