INDIAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES NEW DELHI AIRPORT EXPANSION PLAN
March 1st, 2017
THE INDIAN government has released a new updated master plan for expanding Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), in New Delhi. It includes building a new fourth runway, a new terminal and expanding existing terminals 1 and 3. “The updated master plan envisages expansion of passenger handling capacity of IGIA from existing 62 million passengers per annum [mppa] to 109.3 million” in three phases between 2017 and 2034, said Jayant Sinha, civil aviation minister. Even though the 1,865 hectares airport was modernised in 2008, former chairman of the Airports ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.