NEW DELHI: Terminal 2 of Delhi Airport will be shut for repairs on April 15 for about four months and Terminal 1 will finally start operating at 100% capacity. Airlines operating flights from this all-domestic terminal will shift to T1. These include IndiGo and Akasa among others.
In a statement, IndiGo said ” effective April 15, 2025, all its flights arriving to and departing from Terminal 2 will operate to/from Terminal 1. With implementation of this change, IndiGo will now operate from Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.”
IndiGo says it has “taken proactive measures to ensure that its customers are well-informed about this change. The airline is reaching out to all passengers and their respective travel agents through SMS, calls, and emails to notify them. IndiGo recommends retrieving PNR on the airline’s website or mobile app to check departure / arrival terminal before heading to the airport.”
Akasa said: “Starting April 15, 2025, all our flights to and from Delhi will operate from Terminal 1 (1D) of Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. Please your check your flight status before proceeding to the airport.”
Delhi Airport said: “Attention Passengers: Effective April 15, 2025 (0001 hrs), all flights currently operating from Terminal 2 will shift to Terminal 1 until further notice.”
Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) has begun conducting trials for transferring check-in baggage of connecting passengers between T3 (IGIA’s only international terminal) and the all domestic T1. This week T1 will get fully operational and then T2 will be shut for repairs. However with an air train still a few years away, transfers between T3 & T1 — at a time when connecting traffic is on the rise thanks to massive network expansion by Air India group and IndiGo — remain a major pain point for passengers. To make domestic-international or vice versa transfers between T3 & T1 little less painful, DIAL plans to ensure baggage of some connecting passengers gets transferred on the airside without them being required to carry the same with them on buses.
As of now, international arrivals at Delhi airport have to complete their immigration and customs clearance have to check-in baggage again for connecting flights. “DIAL is conducting trials for smooth transfer of cabin baggage from T3 to T1 for passengers arriving from international destinations and having a connecting flight from T1,” DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar said last Friday. Jaipuriar said once the new system is implemented, then, after customs clearance, passengers will not have to carry baggage to T1. They can drop the baggage at T3, and the airline concerned will transfer it to T1 through the airside, Jaipuriar said.
DIAL has told the civil aviation ministry that transfer of passengers for connecting flights from T1 to T3 will be completed in 120 minutes. The number of transfer traffic is expected to rise and with the 7-km apart T1 & T3 not connected by an air train, smooth connections are a distant dream as of now. “We have committed to Govt that it will be ensured passengers coming out of T1 can board a flight in T3 in 120 minutes,” he said.
