IGIA: Promise Of Good Times With Hospitality And Airline Hubs

New Delhi: Becoming the hub of at least two airlines and housing a 43-acre hospitality district, the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here is set for a big leap in passenger traffic. Currently, no airport in India caters to two airlines as a hub or a base of operations. Also, there is neither any hospitality-based Aerocity operational anywhere else in the country.

"Delhi airport is already the busiest in India with passenger traffic growing in double digits. Addition of infrastructure like Aerocity project will help it in absorbing the growth in passenger traffic," said Rajiv Chib, associate director, aerospace and defence at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Marcel Hungerbuehler, chief operating officer, Delhi International Airport Limited, the company which manages Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, concurred. "We already have world class infrastructure in place to handle any exponential growth in passenger traffic," he told IANS.

"Air India has already made terminal-3 (T3) as its hub and we will be pleased if the proposed Tata-SIA (Singapore Airlines) airline makes IGIA its base or hub in the future," he added.
 

Last year the IGIA handled approximately 36.77 million passengers and 590,000 tonnes of cargo.

Air India is focussing on providing easy transit for passengers to various connecting international and domestic destinations in line with international practices followed at other global airports like Singapore's Changi, London's Heathrow, New York's JFK and Frankfurt.
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