Government asks airport operators to ensure additional capacity for hassle-free travel

New Delhi: The Government has asked the airport operators to install additional capacity and redesign their systems to facilitate a hassle-free travel for air passengers during peak hours.

The directions were given during the meeting, conducted by Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal yesterday. The meeting was called to take stock of the measures taken at Bengaluru and Mumbai Airports for decongestion during peak hours. It was attended by the airport operators of Bengaluru, Mumbai, and other senior officials from Director Generals of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).

Airport operators were advised to give daily report on several aspects including; putting sign boards to indicate the real time basis waiting



time at entry gates; whether all airlines are manning their check-in counters adequately; installation of additional x-ray machines to increase the number of security lanes; rebalancing the peak hour flight schedule with the availability of security lanes and disseminating all the relevant information to passengers.

The Civil Aviation Ministry said, with the continuous monitoring of the situation at major airports and augmentation of capacity, the situation has improved and is likely to get further eased in coming days.

Earlier, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia directed all the major airport operators to identify bottlenecks and augment capacity to meet the growing passenger demand at the airports.