Adjust your schedule as there won’t be any new flights at Delhi airport, thanks to infrastructure crunch

Infrastructure crunch at major airports in India is hurting both, airlines and the passengers.

This summer, there will be no additional flights from Delhi even as passengers flying outside the national capital are increasing. This is because big airports are bursting at its seams.

This is forcing Indian flyers to change their schedule as Delhi airport won’t be adding a single flight between 7am and 10pm this summer.

The severe infrastructure crunch at major Indian airports was highlighted during recent deliberations aviation authorities held with airlines to finalise the summer schedule this year.

TOI accessed the minutes of the meeting, prepared by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The Delhi airport's representative said at the meeting that "no new flights are being accepted from 7am to 10pm as Delhi airport is full during that period".

Meanwhile, airlines are vexed as they don't have slots for additional flights or even adequate parking stands.

According to the minutes, Neville Mehta of JetAirways said: "There needs to be a way forward to increase air traffic movement at metros especially Delhi and Bengaluru... given the status of airport infrastructure almost across the country and with no immediate solution in sight, airlines have no room to either expand or manoeuvre their schedules/network commensurate with passenger growth."