| "The aerodrome licence authorises DIAL to operate the IGI Airport under the provisions of the Aircraft Act 1934 and Aircraft Rules 1937," the company said in a statement. |
| DIAL had recently submitted a master plan for modernisingthe Delhi airport to the ministry of civil aviation and the Airports Authority of India, it added. |
| The master plan envisioned construction of a new integrated passenger terminal to cater to both domestic and international traffic. This terminal would be ready before the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the statement said. |
| Simultaneously, DIAL has implemented a number of steps to improve the existing airport infrastructure, including the duration of simultaneous runway operations, which has been increased along with the addition of several new rapid exit taxi-ways thereby reducing the waiting time for aircraft on the ground and in air. |
| The company said it had added new X-ray machines inside passenger terminals. New passenger seating had also been introduced at the terminals, it said. |
| DIAL is the joint venture company consisting of Airports Authority of India, the GMR Group, Fraport, Eraman Malaysia and India Development Fund that has been mandated to operate, maintain, develop, design, construct, finance, upgrade and modernise the Delhi airport. |
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