Delhi Airports T1 re-opened for operations from Aug 17,2024 with a handful of SpiceJet flights operating. This re-opened part of the terminal is the newly constructed part and not the one in which the roof fell on June 28 this year. IndiGo follows SpiceJet to the new terminal, which has been under construction since pre-COVID times as part of DIAL’s ambitious plan to increase the capacity of Delhi airport to 100 million.
IndiGo will operate only 35 departures from Terminal 1, effective September 02, 2024. With this, IndiGo will be back to operating from all three terminals at Delhi, with flight numbers 2000 – 2999 operating from Terminal 2, flight numbers 5000 – 5999 operating from Terminal 3 and rest all flights operating from Terminal 1.
SpiceJet had shifted 13 daily departures to T1. SpiceJet has been at the receiving end for the last few days, having further shrunk its operations and facing issues with payments to everyone from airports, employees and vendors. Together the 48 flights from T1 is just a token start of Terminal 1, since this averages only 2 flights an hour. In reality, they would be bunched at certain times. The old and new T1 together has a capacity of 40 million passengers annually.
This will ease some pressure on Terminal 2 and 3, which has been accommodating flights from T1 since the collapse of the canopy. The new structure was inaugurated early this year but had not seen operations begin for want of regulatory clearances. The entire Terminal 1 will start operations only after the renovations and structural stability clearances are obtained for the old portion, thus impacting the total capacity of the airport for a considerable time.
IndiGo has around 220 daily domestic departures from Delhi and the shift to T1 translates to about 15% of its total daily domestic departures at Delhi. The airline also has 22 daily international departures. Delhi Airport allows international departures only from T3. The shift will actually complicate matters for connecting passengers but will continue to be so until Delhi finds a way to transfer passengers between terminals in a faster manner.
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August 30, 2024