Delhi Second Airport

The National Capital Region is set to get its second major airport in April next year and with the first trial flights scheduled a few days from now at the Noida International Airport, NDTV has got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look.

Aiming to cut the time taken for completing the immigration process from a minimum of 30 minutes to mere seconds, the Centre has introduced a fast-track programme at the Delhi airport, which will be expanded to 20 other cities soon.

The new one-step quick baggage drop solution reduces the check-in process to just 30 seconds from one minute, Delhi International Airport Ltd said.

The passenger handling capacity of its three terminals would increase to 100 million passengers per annum (MPPA) and the airside capacity will enhance to handle 140 MPPA.

Cirium released the list of the top-performing global airports of 2022 in which Bangalore's Kempegwoda International Airport and Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport found second and seventh spots, respectively.

An IndiGo aircraft was grounded at the Delhi airport after a video showed one of its engines on fire on Friday night, seconds before taking off for Bengaluru.

Delhi Airport was the world's second busiest airport in March in terms of domestic and international flights handled, said Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data provider, in its recent report.

Air India's second evacuation flight from Romanian capital Bucharest carrying 250 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine landed at the Delhi airport in the early hours of Sunday, government officials said.

International passengers arriving at the Delhi airport shared mixed experiences as the fresh guidelines for fliers, particularly for those from 'at risk' nations, entered the second day today. Airport officials, however, said that adequate arrangemen

Delhi Airport's Terminal 2 or T2 will resume operations from July 22, two months after it was shut due to significant drop in domestic air traffic owing to the COVID-19 pandemic's second wave, a statement said today.

Random testing of coronavirus will be held across Delhi's airports, railway and bus stations, the Delhi government declared on Tuesday amid a surge in infections that is seen as the emergent second wave of the virus.

At least two flights have been diverted to Jaipur from the Delhi airport and three others are held up due to strong winds, rain and hail in parts of Delhi and adjoining areas. The heavy rain has brought down temperatures to 17 degrees Celsius, even though air quality in the capital remained in the ''severe'' category for the second consecutive day.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was stopped at the Jammu airport on Tuesday and sent back to Delhi, a party leader said, the second time in a month the former chief minister was not allowed to visit Jammu and Kashmir.

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who is on a three-day visit to India, received a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today. The Nepal prime minister arrived in Delhi yesterday and was received at the airport by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. He later met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official official residence. The two leaders toda...

For the second consecutive day, operations at the Delhi airport were suspended this morning after the visibility level on the runways dropped below 50 metres. Thick fog covered many parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region leading to slow moving traffic on Day One of 2018. Train services too have been severely hit in Delhi and several other p...

The National Capital Region is set to get its second major airport in April next year and with the first trial flights scheduled a few days from now at the Noida International Airport, NDTV has got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look.

Aiming to cut the time taken for completing the immigration process from a minimum of 30 minutes to mere seconds, the Centre has introduced a fast-track programme at the Delhi airport, which will be expanded to 20 other cities soon.

The new one-step quick baggage drop solution reduces the check-in process to just 30 seconds from one minute, Delhi International Airport Ltd said.

The passenger handling capacity of its three terminals would increase to 100 million passengers per annum (MPPA) and the airside capacity will enhance to handle 140 MPPA.

Cirium released the list of the top-performing global airports of 2022 in which Bangalore's Kempegwoda International Airport and Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport found second and seventh spots, respectively.

An IndiGo aircraft was grounded at the Delhi airport after a video showed one of its engines on fire on Friday night, seconds before taking off for Bengaluru.

Delhi Airport was the world's second busiest airport in March in terms of domestic and international flights handled, said Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data provider, in its recent report.

Air India's second evacuation flight from Romanian capital Bucharest carrying 250 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine landed at the Delhi airport in the early hours of Sunday, government officials said.

International passengers arriving at the Delhi airport shared mixed experiences as the fresh guidelines for fliers, particularly for those from 'at risk' nations, entered the second day today. Airport officials, however, said that adequate arrangemen

Delhi Airport's Terminal 2 or T2 will resume operations from July 22, two months after it was shut due to significant drop in domestic air traffic owing to the COVID-19 pandemic's second wave, a statement said today.

Random testing of coronavirus will be held across Delhi's airports, railway and bus stations, the Delhi government declared on Tuesday amid a surge in infections that is seen as the emergent second wave of the virus.

At least two flights have been diverted to Jaipur from the Delhi airport and three others are held up due to strong winds, rain and hail in parts of Delhi and adjoining areas. The heavy rain has brought down temperatures to 17 degrees Celsius, even though air quality in the capital remained in the ''severe'' category for the second consecutive day.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was stopped at the Jammu airport on Tuesday and sent back to Delhi, a party leader said, the second time in a month the former chief minister was not allowed to visit Jammu and Kashmir.

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who is on a three-day visit to India, received a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan today. The Nepal prime minister arrived in Delhi yesterday and was received at the airport by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. He later met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official official residence. The two leaders toda...

For the second consecutive day, operations at the Delhi airport were suspended this morning after the visibility level on the runways dropped below 50 metres. Thick fog covered many parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region leading to slow moving traffic on Day One of 2018. Train services too have been severely hit in Delhi and several other p...