Lockdown: Delhi airport gets opportunity to completely sanitise its facilities

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 27

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The nationwide lockdown in the wake coronavirus has come as an opportunity for all the three terminals of the Delhi Airport as they are witnessing extensive sanitisation of all the terminal buildings.

At a time, when almost everyone is following a nationwide lockdown, some “unsung heroes” are working round-the-clock to sanitise the Delhi Airport.

“They are staying at the airport and in way leading a quarantined life, as they are not going back home to meet their families,” said an airport official.

Since the airport is shut for commercial operations, but those who are on duty are engaged in extensive sanitisation of the entire terminal buildings like check-in area and counters, chairs, baggage belt, Immigration counters, custom area, trolley, wash-rooms to maintain the hygiene label within the terminal.

“Members of terminal operations team and facilitation team are also working at odd hours to facilitate the arrival and departure passengers of special flights within the terminal,” they said.

Apart from this, they are engaged in distribution of food items, water to the arrived or departing passengers, managing the queue to get the immigration and security clearance faster. They are also present at the locations where passengers are, to help them in any crisis situations.

After international flights were suspended on March 22, as many as 10 evacuation flights have been operated by various countries, including India, to fly stranded Indians back and take their citizens from here. The biggest aircraft used for evacuation was an Airbus 380, operated by Lufthansa that flew around 500 German nationals to Frankfurt.