Air commuters to relax in peace and stay connected at 100 rest rooms with wi-fi
Air commuters to relax in peace and stay connected at 100 rest rooms with wi-fi
The wait is over. At least in the lounges that forces you to sit for unnerving hours to catch the connecting flight at the airport.
Work in full swing: The T3 terminal will be inaugurated by Prime
Minister, Manmohan Singh on July 3. pics/Imtiyaz Khan
In the newly constructed building, the Delhi International Airport Limited has constructed around 100 transit rooms in the premises to facilitate the travellers.u00a0
"Earlier, either the passenger had to leave the airport or had to wait for long hours in the waiting lounge. Now, the rest rooms for such passengers have been constructed to ease their tiring journey," said a DIAL official.
Also, the rooms will have wi-fi connectivity along with other amenities.
"We are planning to provide these rooms on an hourly-basis instead of daily basis. Generally, the gap between the flights is for few hours and if someone wants to stay for a few days, one can easily avail the facility of rooms outside the airport as well," explained the official.
"The general practice is of providing rooms on a daily basis. In order to get a roomu00a0 in the vicinity of the airport, a passenger had to shell out huge amount of money.
But now with this facility in place, a person will end up spending less and will not have to go outside the airport. It will be all for the covenience of the commuters," said another official.
| Mammoth task |
| The new terminal or Terminal 3 which is claimed to be the sixth largest in the world in terms of its size of 5.4 million square feet would handle both domestic and international traffic with a capacity to handle 34 million passengers per annum. The other large international airports include the ones at Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong and Bangkok. The T3 terminal will be inaugurated by Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh on July 3. The foundation stone for T3 was laid in February 2007 and all construction works have been completed. |
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