Delhi Airport plans to raise capacity by 30% in 3 years
Indian airlines have placed orders for a record number of aircraft. At 73.7 million, the country's busiest airport handled 20% of India's total passengers in FY24.
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«We currently have a peak runway capacity of 84 aircraft movements per hour. We are working with air traffic control and consultants to increase it to 110 in the next three years,» said DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar at the CAPA India Aviation Summit. This, he said, is an increase of 500-600 slots per day from 1,500.
An airport slot is permission for take-off and landing at a specific time and date.
The airport had undertaken a ₹9,800 crore capacity expansion project to increase its terminal capacity to 100 million from 66 million passengers.
Under that, it opened a fourth runway making it the only one in the country to have so. Currently, one of the runways is undergoing maintenance after which all four runways will be available by July. It has also built a new domestic terminal which will be fully functional in July increasing its capacity.
Between themselves, IndiGo, Air India and Akasa have ordered 1,250 aircraft over the last year and a large share of those will be flying in and out of Delhi airport as it is the hub for IndiGo and Air India.
Around 100 of them are wide-body aircraft which will be used for international flights.
Jaipuriar said that he
