Civil Aviation Minister Naidu inaugurates refurbished T2 at Delhi airport

Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Saturday inaugurated Delhi airport’s renovated Terminal 2 (T2), which will be operational from Sunday.

T2, built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) four decades ago, was shut for renovation in April this year. It has an annual capacity of 15 million passengers.

India could become one of the world’s largest civil aviation ecosystems, Naidu said at the inaugural function.

The entire transfer ecosystem should be made more efficient to make the airport an international hub, he said, adding that the airport could have an annual passenger handling capacity of around 130 million with efficient use of space.

The minister also said the Delhi airport was focusing on sustainability, including concentrating on the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital, also the country’s largest airport, has three terminals—T1, T2, and T3 — and four runways. It handles more than 1,300 flight movements daily.

DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar said the airport had an annual passenger handling capacity of over 100 million.

Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) operates IGIA.

On March 20, DIAL said the expanded T1 could accommodate 40 million passengers, and T3 could handle 45 million passengers annually.