Delhi airport chaos:Scindia lists measures to ease crowding

If any one wants to catch the flights Delhi, he must reach at least three hours before the boarding time. It takes a minimum 45 minutes to enter into the airport building, another an hour to collect the boarding pass and scanning of luggage. After this exhaustive exercise the passenger has very little time to board the flight. International passengers facing dual tension- immigration and security. Passengers in large number highlighting  their woos on social media platforms , tagging the civil aviation minister , on a daily basis. Because of the mess some of them missed ther flight daily. CISF, handling the airport security for the last several years, has no convincing answer for the increasing chaos.airlines staff are helpless and blame the security for the mess.

Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia paid a surprise visit to Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Monday morning amid complaints of congestion at the airport. He inspected all the congested areas and interacted with the airport staff. The Minister had a meeting with all stakeholders at the Delhi International Airport Limited, DIAL office where key directions were issued to deal with the matter.Meanwhile,an action plan was chalked out by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. X-ray screening systems will be enhanced by two additional X-ray screening systems. Two entry points - Gate 1A and Gate 8B - will be converted for passenger usage. Debunching of flights has also been envisaged in consultation with airlines to progressively reduce the peak hour departures to fourteen at T3 terminal.

Steps taken and directions given by @MoCA_GoI @JM_Scindia to decongest @DelhiAirport :

1. Locate bottlenecks & ease them up

2. Ushers to be deployed at entrance to help passengers

3. Xray and ATRS machines ⬆️ from 12 to 16

4. Adoption of digiyatra app for smooth facilitation pic.twitter.com/NulusH3dA7

— Nikhil Lakhwani (@nikhil_lakhwani) December 12, 2022

Scindia had a meeting with the officials and it was decided that a board should be placed at every entry gate to display the waiting time. He said, there is a lot of congestion at the airports as the aviation industry is recovering from the impact of Covid period.