New Delhi: Terminal-2 (T2) at Delhi Airport can continue operations in early July if footsteps continue to increase at a fast level, officials said.
While daily feet at Inetrnational Indira Gandhi airport have dropped to around 18,000 passengers in mid-May, has crossed a sign of 60,000 now and officials say T2 can be done immediately operate if it crosses the 80,000 mark in 15 days in 15 days.
At present, only Terminal-3 (T3) operations, handle domestic and international flights.
While T2 has become a functional last October, the operation was suspended in May once again after footsteps down due to locking in several countries.
According to data, T2 was created last year – after national locking – when daily footsteps have reached around 1 passenger lakh.
“However, it is easier to maintain and run operations at T3 today and there is no change that will occur unless there is a sustainable increase in footsteps,” said an airport official.
The footsteps touched 62,000 passengers – per day at the end of June and drifted around 60,000 passengers in the first week of July, officially added.
“Growth is slightly stopped, but everything will depend on demand.
If more flights are needed, T2 will be needed to meet the increasing footsteps.” Simultaneously, the work is underway at terminal-1 as part of the airport expansion plan, which will see Its capacity increases from 2 crore passengers per year to 4 crore.
In the recent internal survey, Mumbai, Patna, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Leh, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Jammair & Kashmir have emerged as the top 10 tourist destinations from Delhi in May and June 2021.
This survey also found it Following the relaxation of gradual locking norms, 48% of leaflets are in the category of “friend and family visits”, followed by vacation (25%) and business travelers (19%).
In a similar survey conducted in June 2020 after locking throughout the country gradually lifted, only 2% of tourists who will vacation, with most chunk will only see friends and family members, followed by business travelers.