Customs officials take a tour of the newly-inaugurated Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3 in New Delhi. Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) authorities earlier pushed back the initial operation start date by 14 days to provide more time to all stakeholders to deal with any glitches, including setting up of airline offices, synchronising security procedures, baggage handling and the whole range of airport operations.
Visitors take a tour of the newly-inaugurated Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3. On Wednesday, as part of the real-time drill, Jet Airways will fly the first international outbound flight to Dubai from the terminal, followed by first domestic flight from the national capital to Jaipur, Rajasthan on Air India
Visitors take a tour of the newly-inaugurated Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3. "Passengers traveling by these nine flights (July 14 and July 15) are being informed individually by their respective airlines. Flight information is also being displayed on standees at terminal 2. The information about flights arriving and departing from Terminal 3 will also be displayed prominently at various points on the eight lane road from Hotel Radisson to Terminal 3," DIAL said in a statement
Visitors take a tour of the newly-inaugurated Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3. The terminal "proving flights" come after extensive trial runs at the sixth largest passenger terminal in the world which was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh July 3
Visitors take a tour of the newly-inaugurated Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3. The airport which can handle 34 million passengers a year was built in a record 37 months when similar projects abroad have taken more than 60 months, officials said
Visitors take a tour of the newly-inaugurated Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3. Built by a consortium led by the GMR group, T3 is much bigger than Singapore's Changi Terminal 3 and 2 put together, or even the famed Incheon Airport in Seoul and Tokyo's Narita International Airport's Terminal 1, and one third of the world's largest terminal -- Dubai's Terminal
A worker sweeps a floor near immigration counters inside the newly built Terminal 3. T3 is not yet quite the 'mall-attached-to-airport' like Changi. Changi's T3 has a cinema theatre, hotel, spa, shops and scores of Internet terminals.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) is watched by Chairperson of the UPA government Sonia Gandhi (2R), Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel (2L), Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit (R) and GMR Chairman G.M. Rao (L) as he cuts a ribbon to inaugurate the recently completed Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi
Chairman of India's United Breweries Group - which includes KIngfisher Airlines - Vijay Mallya (C) gestures as he speaks with Bharti Telecommunications Chairman Suni Bharti Mittal (R) during a ceremony to inaugurate the recently completed Terminal 3.
