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CISF adds 100 more personnel to man new security counters

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Saturday, 17 December 2022, 11:40 AM 414

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has prepared a pool of more than 100 personnel to man additional security counters expected to be handed over to it for easing the ongoing congestion at large airports of Delhi and Mumbai, official sources said reports PTI. The Central Paramilitary, designated as the national aviation security force, has […]Continue Reading

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Delhi Airport’s fourth runway to be ready for use by 2023: AAI

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 11 August 2022, 1:00 PM 799

Sanjeev Kumar, Chairman, Airports Authority of India (AAI) has said that the fourth runway of Delhi’s IGI Airport should be ready for use by Q1, 2023, reports Times Now. The remaining remaining tasks including painting runway markers and calibration will be finished by the end of this December. By the beginning of 2023, the fourth […]Continue Reading

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Delhi’s IGI Airports restarts trial of full-body security scanners

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 10:00 AM 812

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport has once again started trial of full-body scanners, after airports across the country missed the March 2022 deadline for deploying them, reports Jagriti Chandra for The Hindu. Full-body scanners can detect non-metal objects, which are hard to detect with the conventional door frame metal detector. Delhi International Continue Reading

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Delhi’s IGI emerges as world’s fifth busiest airport due to revival of domestic travel

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 7:38 PM 1446

According to a TOI report,the Indira Gandhi International Airport has emerged as the world’s fifth busiest airport this month, thanks to the revival of domestic air travel, and despite postponement of regular international flights due to Omicron. The same reasons have made IndiGo — which flies six in every 10 domestic passengers — the eighth […]Continue Reading

Guest Column

INDIAS CROWN JEWAR

By Anurag Yadav Friday, 30 July 2021, 11:00 AM 9001

Indian aviation’s’ game-changing move is a treasure in the making. Let us try to spin some positivity in bad news. Reading the figures given by CAPA, one can say the percentage increase between last fiscal’s losses for Indian airlines over this year is not much. Last year it was USD 3.9 billion, this year it […]Continue Reading