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Project Information
In July 2010, the new integrated Terminal 3 of Delhi's IGI Airport was thrown open for passengers to use. It was built as a result of the booming air traffic growth in the Indian aviation.

The new Terminal 3 which occupies 5.4 million sq ft has been designed by HOK and is capable of handling 34 million passengers/annum. The interior designers of this new terminal are the Australian designers Woodhead. Construction of this terminal was carried out by Larsen & Toubro and completed in just 37 months.

The terminal has 168 check-in counters, 78 aerobridges at 48 contact stands (gates), 30 parking bays, 95 immigration counters and 15 X-ray screening areas.


Some Images of T3:

Departure level
















Sun God






Mudras - 9 classical hand gestures have been installed in the immigration area.
Read more about them here.


















Multilevel Parking Lot - 7 levels with a capacity of 4300 cars



New ATC tower - will be 100 meters tall and commissioned in early 2014









Phase I - COMPLETED:



As part of Phase 1 of the plan, a new terminal for domestic operations has been built. This terminal has been dubbed T1D but after 2010 will become T1B and will cater to the LCCs.












Asia's third longest runway also became operational on September 26th. This 4,330 m long runway is IGI's third runway.




According to the 2026 masterplan, the IGI airport will be able to handle 100 million passengers/annum.

2026 masterplan:


Masterplan Model




Phased expansion and modernization timeline (TENTATIVE):

Phase 1A (2008) - COMPLETED
-Modernization of existing terminals - 1A,1B,1C and T2
-New Departure terminal for low cost airlines - T1D
-Third Runway

Phase 1B (2010) - COMPLETED
-New Integrated Terminal - T3
-Metro connectivity through Airport Express Line

Phase 2 (2012)
-Additional remote stands near T3
-New central transportation corridor
-T1B to be razed - New terminal for general aviation and parking lot to come in place.

Phase 3 (2016)
-New international terminal - T4
-Expansion of T3 including piers
-Fourth Runway (11L/29R)
-New ATC tower

Phase 4 (2021)
-New Terminal -T5
-New pier for T5 and contact stands

Phase 5 (2026)
-New terminal for LCCs - T6
-Expansion of T3 and T4 piers and concourses
-Remote stands for T6
-New strengthened runway 09/27
-cargo facilities relocated North


more info on the future of the airport from a news article:

New integrated terminal to go domestic by 2020

The new integrated passenger terminal (Terminal 3) set to come up at IGI Airport ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games which will cater to both domestic and international passengers is to be eventually converted to a domestic terminal by 2020.

When Terminal 3 is converted to a domestic terminal, all international operations will be shifted to a brand new international passenger terminal (tentatively called Terminal 4) which will come up at the same place where the international terminal currently stands.

Senior Delhi International Airport Private Ltd (DIAL) officials say until the new terminal is built, certain changes will be effected to deal with the growing air traffic. Soon, Terminal 1A will be thrown open to other airlines besides Indian (Airlines) and Kingfisher.

"The existing international terminal is likely to be demolished by 2015 after which there is a plan to come up with a new international terminal at the same location," Delhi International Airport Private Ltd (DIAL)'s Chief Development Officer I Prabhakara Rao said.

"Also, we plan to construct another international terminal (Terminal 5) in the saturation phase by 2025. So, both these terminals will then take care of international operations while the integrated Terminal 3 will be used solely for domestic operations," he added.

But what happens to the existing domestic airport? DIAL plans to raze the domestic airport by 2020 and clear the area for cargo operations.

DIAL also plans to come up with a brand new Low Cost Carrier (LCC) Terminal (Terminal 6) exclusively to cater to low-cost carriers at the point where Nangal Dewat village and Centaur Hotel currently stand. "By 2008, a low-cost terminal, Terminal 1-C, will come up at the existing domestic airport site. However, this terminal will eventually be shut down once the entire domestic airport is demolished to make way for cargo operations. So by 2020, we plan to have a new LCC terminal at the airport," Rao added.

DIAL officials say the new LCC terminal will be spread over an area of 2.5 million square feet. As per initial projections, the LCC Terminal would be almost the same size as that of the international and domestic terminals by the year 2020.

"Considering the passenger traffic growth in coming years, we have kept sufficient flexibility in our plans and so a lot of things will change over the next few years," Rao added.

During the course of the function, Patel appealed to Chidambaram to reduce duties on aircraft fuel so that every citizen can afford air travel.

In addition to an underground Metro link to the airport, DIAL plans to construct an underground road connecting the airport with National Highway 8.
 
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#101 ·
"While the company says international passenger traffic will grow to 25.66 million per year by 2026, AAI says the number will touch 72.30 million. Similarly, the developers see the number of domestic passengers rising to 56.94 million per year against AAI’s projection of 221.17 million by 2026."

huh? aai thinks delhi will handle 300 million passengers in 2026? have they gone mad? are they simply continuing with present growth rates for 20 years?

can an airport even be built for handling 300 million?
the biggest airport that i know of being designed is the one that is to come up in Jebel Ali- just outside of Dubai which is for about 120 Million. Dubai handles close to 23M these days.
 
#102 ·
The civil aviation ministry seems to have used a simple linear growth formula to come up with this dumb number. If they only had some brains, they would try to work out upper limits to these numbers by looking at the number of train passengers in the country. Indian Railways carries about 2 crore passengers a day, of which 60 lakhs are commuters in Mumbai's suburban system alone. Including the other suburban systems (Kolkata/Chennai) and daily passengers on short routes, my guess is that the long-distance passengers are of the order of 50 lakhs a day i.e. 5 million a day. This is across the entire country.

Compared to this number, the civil aviation ministry projections seem absurd. Even if they assume that all the people who currently use trains would shift to air travel, their projections for Delhi are way over the top.

I will however give them the benefit of the doubt - they are being advised by a private consultant, so I doubt that they will use a simple linear growth formula based on current growth rates. There could be a reporting error in this report (given the poor quality of newspaper reporting, this is not inconceivable).
 
#103 ·
The civil aviation ministry seems to have used a simple linear growth formula to come up with this dumb number. If they only had some brains, they would try to work out upper limits to these numbers by looking at the number of train passengers in the country. Indian Railways carries about 2 crore passengers a day, of which 60 lakhs are commuters in Mumbai's suburban system alone. Including the other suburban systems (Kolkata/Chennai) and daily passengers on short routes, my guess is that the long-distance passengers are of the order of 50 lakhs a day i.e. 5 million a day. This is across the entire country.

Compared to this number, the civil aviation ministry projections seem absurd. Even if they assume that all the people who currently use trains would shift to air travel, their projections for Delhi are way over the top.

I will however give them the benefit of the doubt - they are being advised by a private consultant, so I doubt that they will use a simple linear growth formula based on current growth rates. There could be a reporting error in this report (given the poor quality of newspaper reporting, this is not inconceivable).
the projection is really absurd.there are a lot of factors affecting this. a linear projection could happen in places like dubai because of the limited number of airports around. but in a place like india, each international airport announced elasewhere in the country should chop of a large percentage of volume from the hubs like mumbai and Delhi.
10-15 years back most of the people from Kerala, especially from north kerala used the Mangalore- Mumbai- Middle east route, but with Calicut, Kochi and now mangalore airports being international- i doubt if anyone would ever use that route now.
 
#104 ·
http://www.newdelhiairport.in/delhi-airport-media/delhi-airport-media-nov2006-1.asp

Airport revamp in fulL swing

The flight would no more have to wait for landing at the Dethi airport as the construction work for a third runway is in full swing. The runway is expected to be completed by the end of 2008.

Besides, the look of Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) will be changed very soon as the renovation work has also started. The Master Plan for the modemisation and restructuring of the Delhi airport has got approval from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and was submitted to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

“We had submitted the Master Plan on September 29 and now we are expected it back with suggestions in the first week of November,” said associate vice president, corporate communication of Delhi International Airport Private Limited (DIAL) Arun Arora. If the Governmentwants some changes in it then we will made those changes and only after that we will start the work. “Once the work will start according to the Master Plan, we will be able to make itone of the best airports of the world,” he added. A separate new airport and a runway project are also in the plan. “While the third runway will be completed by the end of 2008, the airport will be completed before the

Commonwealth Games 2010,” informed Arora. The names of the existing two runways are 9-27 and 10-28. With new airport, the capacity of Delhi airport will increase upto 37 million passengers. Last year, the number of passengers at Delhi airport was 16.2 million and there is 15-20 per cent growth in the number every year. At the international airport the number of passengers was 5.77 million while on the domestic it was 10.47 million and it was also the second busiest airport in India. While the runway would be the first in India which would be ready to handle 555-seater Airbus Super Jumbo A380.

“We have a plan to increase the capacity upto 80 million but it’s a long-term project. In the phase one, we will increase the capacity to 37 million,” said Arora. “There are several other changes which we will made but that will be disclosed after the approval of the Master Plan,” he added.


Meanwhile, the renovation work is on and the DIAL has initiated several steps to improve operational amenities. On the interiors of the terminal buildings the major changes, which had already been done, were internal landscaping, queue management and a new X-ray machines for faster check in.
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The Ministry of Civil Aviation is unnecessarily delaying the approval of the master plan. what is the rocket science in the master plan that they are waiting so long to approve the master plan????
 
#105 ·
Delhi Intl airport to have a fourth runway

GMR, which is leading a joint venture to modernise the Delhi airport, said it would construct a fourth runway here to cater to a projected 37 million passengers.

Initially, the GMR led consortium had planned to add a runway to the two already existing at the IGI Airport.

"We will add a fourth runway to the Delhi International airport after 2020 depending on the passenger traffic," Delhi International Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL) Managing Director Srinivas Bommidala said here, hours after the Supreme Court upheld the award of airport modernisation contracts to GMR and GVK Groups in Delhi and Mumbai.

Bommidala said the Delhi airport had already started contributing 30 per cent to the overall revenue of the Group.

DIAL started the modernisation project from May. The first phase of the project is expected to be ready by March 2010.

Bommidala said the proposed third terminal at the Delhi International Airport will incur an expenditure of Rs 375-400 crore and will completed by March 2008.

The third terminal, 1-C will function in place of terminal 1-B, which will be closed after the new terminal is completed. Terminal 1-B caters to the departures of most of the private carriers.

"Once the whole airport modernisation is complete by March 2010, terminal 1-C will be converted into a low cost terminal," he said.
 
#106 ·
Some details of the master plan (upto 2010) for the Delhi International Airport (culled from various news sources)

1. A new integrated terminal will be built as planned. It will be U-shaped (probably a central passenger terminal building with two piers/concourses perpedicular to it). This will have a passenger handling capacity of upwards of 35m pax/annum. More details, including floor area and the number of passenger gates, are currently unknown. It is scheduled to be commissioned before the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

2. A new interim terminal, called 1-C will be built. This will come up in the area between 1A (terminal used by Indian/Kingfisher) and 1B (used by other domestic private airlines) and may be connected to 1A. It will have a floor area of 75000sqm (contrasted with about 55000 sqm for the terminal being built currently at Bangalore Airport and the approx. 100000 sqm terminal coming up at Hyderabad). It will not have in-contact bays (no aerobridges) and passengers will be bussed to remote bays. Once the integrated terminal comes up, 1C will be converted into a low cost airlines terminal. The status of Terminal 1A at that stage is unknown. I presume that since it will be connected to 1C, it will be retained for the new low cost terminal, perhaps with modifications.

3. Once terminal 1C opens in 2008, Terminal 1B will be decommissioned. It will be demolished and replaced by a cargo terminal.

4. A new parallel runway will come up south of the airport location. The new integrated terminal will be in the area between this runway and the existing runways to the north of it. This runway will be opened in 2008.

5. The Delhi Metro link to the airport is close to final approval. It will come up before the Commonwealth Games in 2010.
 
#107 ·
The integrated terminal is planned to be 440000 sqm. It is a pretty respectable size for a terminal with a capacity of 35m passengers.
Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport has a terminal of size 570000 sqm for a capacity of 45m passengers. Thus IGIA will have 12571 sqm of terminal area per million passengers capacity, compared to 12667 in the case of HKIA.
 
#108 ·
New-look Delhi airport to cost Rs 7,000cr
BS Reporter / New Delhi November 7, 2006

The GMR - led consortium -- modernising the Delhi airport -- will pump in about Rs 7,000 crore to build the new integrated airport in the national capital. The new airport, which will be completed by March 2010, will have a capacity to handle 37 million passengers a year.


The consortium, to meet the interim surge in traffic, will, however, build a smaller terminal near the existing domestic terminal in Delhi. The terminal, which will require an investment of about Rs 400 crore, will have a passenger handling capacity of 10 million a year and will be up and running by 2008. It will have built-up area of 75,000 square feet.


This terminal will be converted to a low - cost airline terminal in 2010, when the new airport will become operational. "The interim airport terminal, which will be called 1C, will be linked to existing domestic arrival terminal and the terminal operated by Indian Airlines. Once the new airport becomes operational, this terminal complex will be converted to a low-cost airport, while the new building will be an integrated domestic and international airport," said


The existing 1B terminal, from where the private carriers operate now, will be pulled down completely and a new cargo complex will be built in that area. Similarly, once the new airport becomes operational, the existing international terminal will also be discontinued.


It is expected that with the modernisation and the operationalisation of the new terminal building will up the total capacity of the Delhi airport to over 45 million by 2010 from the present 16 million.


The work on the two new terminals will begin in January, once the government approves the master plan given by the GMR consortium. As a part of the augmenting the airport capacity, the consortium will also build a new runway, with 4,400 meter length. The work on the new runway will start in March 2007 and is expected to complete by 2008 March. This runway will have the capacity to handle super jumbos like Airbus A 380. The Delhi airport will have two primary runways and one parallel runway. The group will look at a fourth runway after 2020, if the growth in traffic requires it.


According to him, the Delhi airport currently contributes about 30 per cent of the total GMR Group's revenue. According to him, the revenue share will continue to be in the same region in the future as well as the other infrastructure projects of the company will also become operational by then.


Updated at 1415 hrs: GMR, which is leading a joint venture to modernise the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi, today said it would construct a fourth runway to cater to a projected 37 million passengers.

"We will add a fourth runway to the IGI Airport after 2020 depending on the passenger traffic," Srinivas Bommidala, MD of Delhi International Airport (DIAL), said here, hours after the Supreme Court upheld the award of airport modernisation contracts to GMR and GVK Groups.

Bommidala said the IGI Airport had already started contributing 30% to the overall revenue of the group.

DIAL started the modernisation project from May. The first phase of the project is expected to be ready by March 2010.

Bommidala said the proposed third terminal at the IGI Airport will incur an expenditure of Rs 375-400 crore and will completed by March 2008.

He said the new terminal will not increase the cost of the entire airport project pegged at Rs 7,000 crore.

Initially, the GMR led consortium had planned to add a runway to the two already existing at the IGI Airport. (PTI)
 
#109 ·
GMR group unveils plans for airport modernisation
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 at 0000 hrs

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 7: Buoyed by Supreme Court’s decision, which upheld Delhi High Court’s earlier verdict dismissing Reliance Airport Developers plea challenging the award of modernising works for Delhi and Mumbai airports to the GMR and GVK groups respectively, GMR-Fraport led consortium today unveiled plans to have a brand-new domestic terminal by 2008 to cater to around 10 million passengers.

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“We plan to construct Terminal 1-C to cater to the exisiting domestic traffic. This new terminal will be located in the area between the existing Terminal 1-A and 1-B. Domestic operations from this new terminal will be shifted to the new integrated international and domestic terminal set to come up by 2010. This terminal will then be converted into the country’s first low-cost terminal,” Delhi International Airport Private Ltd’s (DIAL) managing director Srinivas Bommidala told The Indian Express. Work on this new terminal, which will cost about Rs 375-400 crore, is likely to begin early next year and get completed by 2008.

Bommidala further said DIAL plans to amalgamate the existing Terminal 1-A, which currently caters to Indian Airlines and Kingfisher, and Terminal 1-B, catering to all other domestic airlines and arrivals, into Terminal 1-C in various phases. The joint-venture company also plans to have a fourth runway at Delhi airport in the final phases of the project.

Given the mandate to finance, design, build, operate and maintain the Delhi airport for a period of 30 years with an option to extend it by another 30 years, DIAL plans to develop an area spread over 21 sq km to eventually be able to handle a capacity of 80 million passengers per annum by 2025.

Prepared by UK-based Mott MacDonald Group, GMR’s lead technical advisor, the masterplan, currently being examined by the Civil Aviation ministry, envisages a new runway by 2008 and an integrated international and domestic terminal, well in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

Meanwhile, reacting to the SC judgement, DIAL’s Chairman G.M. Rao said, “We welcome the decision of the Honourable Supreme Court, and this judgment reinforces our commitment to build a world class airport which would be the pride of Delhi and that of the nation.”
 
#112 ·
Not yet. But the description would give a sense of the overall plan (not the architecture of course). I also can visualize the plan in terms of where the new runway would be and where the new terminal would be built. I would be motivated to create a map of my mine if not for the fact that it will released soon in any case. So it may be just better to wait.
 
#120 · (Edited)
I hate those yellow PWD sign boards. I am glad they replaced them. They did much more than it is visible, like improved air conditioning, cleanliness, drinking water, getting rid of hawks etc. They are also building a compound wall around the perimeter.(its everybody's guess where the money went when AAI was managing the airport)
 
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