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| The consortium, to meet the interim surge in traffic, will, however, build a smaller terminal near the existing domestic terminal in Delhi. The terminal, which will require an investment of about Rs 400 crore, will have a passenger handling capacity of 10 million a year and will be up and running by 2008. It will have built-up area of 75,000 square feet.
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| This terminal will be converted to a low - cost airline terminal in 2010, when the new airport will become operational. "The interim airport terminal, which will be called 1C, will be linked to existing domestic arrival terminal and the terminal operated by Indian Airlines. Once the new airport becomes operational, this terminal complex will be converted to a low-cost airport, while the new building will be an integrated domestic and international airport," said
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| The existing 1B terminal, from where the private carriers operate now, will be pulled down completely and a new cargo complex will be built in that area. Similarly, once the new airport becomes operational, the existing international terminal will also be discontinued.
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| It is expected that with the modernisation and the operationalisation of the new terminal building will up the total capacity of the Delhi airport to over 45 million by 2010 from the present 16 million.
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| The work on the two new terminals will begin in January, once the government approves the master plan given by the GMR consortium. As a part of the augmenting the airport capacity, the consortium will also build a new runway, with 4,400 meter length. The work on the new runway will start in March 2007 and is expected to complete by 2008 March. This runway will have the capacity to handle super jumbos like Airbus A 380. The Delhi airport will have two primary runways and one parallel runway. The group will look at a fourth runway after 2020, if the growth in traffic requires it.
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| According to him, the Delhi airport currently contributes about 30 per cent of the total GMR Group's revenue. According to him, the revenue share will continue to be in the same region in the future as well as the other infrastructure projects of the company will also become operational by then.
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Updated at 1415 hrs: GMR, which is leading a joint venture to modernise the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi, today said it would construct a fourth runway to cater to a projected 37 million passengers.
"We will add a fourth runway to the IGI Airport after 2020 depending on the passenger traffic," Srinivas Bommidala, MD of Delhi International Airport (DIAL), said here, hours after the Supreme Court upheld the award of airport modernisation contracts to GMR and GVK Groups.
Bommidala said the IGI Airport had already started contributing 30% to the overall revenue of the group.
DIAL started the modernisation project from May. The first phase of the project is expected to be ready by March 2010.
Bommidala said the proposed third terminal at the IGI Airport will incur an expenditure of Rs 375-400 crore and will completed by March 2008.
He said the new terminal will not increase the cost of the entire airport project pegged at Rs 7,000 crore.
Initially, the GMR led consortium had planned to add a runway to the two already existing at the IGI Airport. (PTI) |
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