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The Delhi International Airport is witnessing a huge rush due to the ongoing holiday season and pent up demand post COVID-19 recovery. While every year high footfall is recorded during December-January months, this time around, the high footfall has created chaos at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Multiple internet users complained on Twitter about their ordeal at the India's busiest and largest airport, with a few of them also missing flights due to long queues both outside and inside the Terminal 3, which serves both international and domestic travellers.
Many of them also tagged Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Twitter, following which, he promised to take action. The aviation ministry, then took the stock of the situation after meeting relevant authorities from the Delhi Airport and AAI. He also made a surprise visit at the Terminal 3 and gave his inputs. Later, a slew of measures were announced, including increasing entry gates, new X-Ray machines among others. However, the issue is not yet resolved and passengers are still complaining of long queues at the airport.
Airlines like IndiGo, SpiceJet recently issued advisory to reach Delhi airport well ahead of time to avoid any last-minute chaos. Passengers were asked to reach at least 3.5 years earlier than departure for domestic flights and carry hand baggage for saving time. Here's a better understanding of the issue and how you can avoid the rush:
The Delhi International Airport is the largest and busiest airports in India, connecting the highest number of countries to India. While the T1 and T2 serve domestic flights, the T3 is for both domestic and international flights and this is where the chaos is reported. The congestion starts at the pre-departure area where people are complaining about fewer number of gates and slow process by CISF security personnels.
Although due to the holiday season of December, there's a sudden increase in footfall, many are also blaming the pent-up demand after COVID-19, with a lot of passengers travelling for leisure activities across the globe. The main security where one passes through X-ray machines, is also blamed to be slow and also less in number.
The aviation ministry recently announced a slew of measures to counter the high footfall including increasing the number of X-ray screening systems from 14 to 16 and reducing the number of flights during peak hours to 14 from T3.
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