Just a few days after it received the award for being the second best airport of the world, Sunday's rain exposed the Indira Gandhi International Airport's poor arrangement and preparedness for the monsoon. ...
11:44 PM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Incessant heavy rains on Sunday led to waterlogging at IGI airport in New Delhi, causing inconvenience to passengers who waded through knee deep water while the baggage handling system was left crippled. The monsoon arrived in Delhi on Sunday a fortnight ahead of schedule, with national capital recording around 36.6 mm rainfall. But the airport witnessed an "unprecedented" rainfall of 117.8 mm in four and half hours, between...
10:19 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Incessant heavy rains on Sunday led to waterlogging at IGI airport in New Delhi, causing inconvenience to passengers who waded through knee deep water while the baggage handling system was left crippled. The monsoon arrived in Delhi on Sundaya fortnight ahead of schedule, with national capital recording around 36.6 mm rainfall. But the airport witnessed an "unprecedented" rainfall of 117.8 mm in four and half hours, between 1...
09:51 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi International Airport has been named the world's second best airport in the 25-40 million passengers category by the Airport Council International. The airport also has been adjudged as the fourth best in the world among 199 airports across all categories. A nine-member team, comprising representatives from airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), Central Industrial Security Force, Airport Operations Control and Air India received the 'ACI...
07:58 PM, Jun 14, 2013
A group of Kingfisher Airlines workers gathered at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday to protest against the non-payment of salaries. The employees have not received their salaries for the past ten months. Last week, Kingfisher chairman Vijay Mallya had given them an assurance that their salaries would be paid. ...
08:20 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A glitch in the computerized check-in, baggage handling and plane's docking system of the terminal 3 of the IGI airport here today delayed the schedule of around 21 domestic and international flights, causing inconvenience to the passengers. ...
05:07 PM, Mar 08, 2013
A hoax bomb call delayed an Indigo flight on Tuesday morning at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in the capital. Passengers on the Delhi-Patna flight were de-boarded and their luggage taken off the aircraft following the call. ...
03:29 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Radar screens at the Air Traffic Control tower at the IGI Airport in the national capital went blank on Friday following power failure caused by accidental switching off of a miniature circuit breaker (MCB) by a worker carrying out an electrical job in ATC, hitting flight operations. ...
11:51 PM, Feb 08, 2013
A radar failure at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in the capital on Friday led to the radar screens go blank leading to delay in several flights. The scheduling of the flights will have to be done manually. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The stores are located in Domestic Terminal's Gate 27 and International Terminal's Gate 15. ...
02:47 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The Airport Metro Express Line (AMEL) in the capital is expected to resume operations shortly, nearly six months after it was shut down on safety concerns, a Delhi Metro official said on Friday. ...
08:40 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here remained normal even as the area witnessed shallow fog on Wednesday. No flights were delayed or cancelled due to fog at the airport. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday, disrupting the schedule of around 30 flights. ...
11:22 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Flying out of Delhi would become cheaper from Tuesday, with the development fee (DF) charged by the operator of IGI airport being reduced by Rs 100 for domestic and Rs 700 per international passenger. ...
03:47 PM, Dec 31, 2012
The MeT department has announced that dense fog is likely to descend on the national capital by the December 20. Is the Delhi airport prepared for the delays and chaos it causes every year? Come winter and flight delays are a common woe. A few days ago passengers at London Heathrow had a harrying time as 200 flights were cancelled due to fog. ...
06:37 AM, Dec 17, 2012
It was a close call for a SpiceJet aircraft on Thursday night at Delhi's IGI airport. The flight, departing for Pune, hit an electric pole on the runway before take-off and damaged the right wing. ...
09:54 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Kingfisher Airlines lockout which has been on since October 1 may be extended further with employees not willing to join back work till their dues are cleared. Online bookings which were earlier available from October 13 onwards, have now been extended to October 20. On Tuesday, Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Aggaarwal had sent a letter to all employees urging them to join back work. "Unless we can...
07:19 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Minister Shivpal Yadav on Saturday had a miraculous escape when a small plane carrying him skidded off the runway after landing at the IGI airport in Delhi. The incident took place at around 12 noon when the plane skidded off the runway after landing and the nose-wheel got stuck in mud, airport sources said. The plane with six people on board, including Yadav and two pilots,...
02:59 PM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: The advanced Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Air India touched down at Delhi's IGI Airport on Saturday, ending an over four-year wait of the struggling national carrier to add this next-generation airplane in its fleet. The plane, painted in red and yellow livery of Air India, landed at the main runway of the airport at 1705 hours and was given water-cannon salute as it taxied to the bay. After...
06:14 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Bangalore-bound Indigo flight, with 168 people on board, had to land soon after taking off from the IGI Airport in New Delhi after the pilot experienced some technical problem. The Indigo plane, airbus 320, took off from New Delhi at around 8:45 pm but had to land after the pilot thought there was some problem with the aircraft's landing gear, sources said. The ATC was alerted and...
10:51 PM, Aug 28, 2012
