Due to the increasing crowd at Indira Gandhi International Airport, the Delhi Airport Administration has advised passengers to use this app.
Delhi Airport. (file photo)
Delhi Airport : The crowd at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is continuously increasing, due to which the passengers are facing a lot of inconvenience. In view of this, the Delhi Airport Administration has introduced the Digi Yatra App (Digi Yatra App), Delhi airport is witnessing more passengers than usual, resulting in longer boarding and check-in time. More than 1,100 flights operate from here every day. After investigating why so much crowd is visible at the airport, it came to light that one of the main reasons for overcrowding is the lack of staff at the entry gate and poor management. Mandatory ID checks and ticket checking are done at the entry gate, where passengers have to wait in long lines to get inside the airport.
CISF is deployed at the airport, and according to the information, more time is being wasted due to security check. Due to the COVID epidemic, many aviation companies had reduced their staff, after which recruitment was not done even after the situation became normal. This is a major reason that due to less staff and more number of passengers, the airport is overcrowded and people are upset.
Testing takes longer
According to the information received from the sources, today the same situation has come as people were traveling before Covid. There is also a problem with Indian passengers that even after giving information, they leave many loopholes at the time of security check, due to which the check takes more time. He also brings the things which are not allowed to be carried. There is a debate about excess baggage at the boarding pass counter. Staff and passengers ask for extra money for extra luggage.
There is also information that the number of flights at Terminal 3 has been increased, due to which the number of passengers has increased but due to less staff, problems are coming to the fore.
- The work on T 1 is still going on, once it is completed the load on T 3 will be reduced.
- The capacity of T-3 is 60 million per year.
- T1 will have a passenger handling capacity of 40 million.
aircraft landing as per schedule
Congestion is likely to be longer during peak periods mainly because of misallocation of slots in excess of the practical peak hour capacity of Terminal 3. The misallocation is on both the domestic and international side. Wrong allocation once – not possible to reverse in short/medium term. The main problem faced by the public is the security clearance time and entering the airport queue. The planes are landing as per schedule. Security checks need to be streamlined.
Queues will only increase at the time of security check
For example, let’s say the total capacity of all security checkpoints is 1000 pax/hr. Can we load the system at the rate of 2000 pax/hr and then blame security officials for slow clearance. A professional airport operator has to measure the throughput capacity of each passenger processing unit, ie gate, check-in, security check and immigration etc. and declare the peak hour capacity of the terminal accordingly.
Broadly speaking, slots should be approved in such a way that the sum total hourly passenger load of the flights corresponds to the measured hourly capacity of the passenger terminal. Explain that faster check-in by airlines during peak hours will only increase queues at security checks, thus adding to overcrowding.
Sudden flood in the plane
Aviation Sources – Having worked on the ground during morning peak, I have a different take on this. Airlines need to man all counters long before rush-traffic starts, which they don’t, but when the rush starts, they suddenly increase the number of counters staffed, Due to which there is a sudden flood in the plane.
Therefore, it is important for airlines to man all counters before peak hours so that passengers can be cleared in a uniform manner rather than suddenly flooding the security area, which happens nowadays (as airlines have increased manning rather than suddenly doing so). Granted) during this entire peak-hour window we have tried hard to influence the airlines to see reason but they will not listen.
According to an information, even the money for the canceled journey was not given to the passengers at the time of COVID and instead only credit note was given. Because of which now people are using it, that is why the number of passengers is increasing.
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