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After 18 months of closure, Delhi airport reopens its T1 terminal | Watch

Delhi Airport is now fully operational with the commencement of operations at the third terminal. The Delhi Airport's official Twitter account also tweeted footage and photographs of the first scheduled flight arriving at Terminal 1 in 18 months.

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New Delhi, First Published Oct 31, 2021, 7:38 PM IST

After over 18 months of shutdown, the Delhi airport has reopened its T1 terminal. The terminal's launch was announced earlier this month by Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL). The Delhi airport's T3 and T2 terminals reopened for flight operations on May 25, 2020 and July 22, 2021. Delhi Airport is now fully operational with the commencement of operations at the third terminal. The Delhi Airport's official Twitter account also tweeted footage and photographs of the first scheduled flight arriving at Terminal 1 in 18 months.

The first flight planned from T1 after its reopening was an Indigo flight to Mumbai at 0105 hours. Since March 25, 2020, the T1 terminal has not handled any aircraft. "With the restart of the third terminal, Delhi Airport will be fully operational. We want to reassure travellers that they would be in a secure and healthy environment at Delhi airport," said DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar. 

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According to aviation industry sources, airlines are now operating roughly 70% of their pre-Covid domestic passenger flights within India and 20% of their pre-Covid international passenger flights from India. However, beginning July 2020, special international flights ran under the 'Vande Bharat Mission' and bilateral "air bubble" agreements with chosen countries.

India has signed air-bubble treaties with 28 nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Bhutan, and France. Their airlines can perform special international flights between their territory with specified limits under an air-bubble accord between two nations. Earlier on Friday, the Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced an extension of scheduled international passenger flights' suspension until November 30. "However, international scheduled flights may be permitted on specific routes on a case-by-case basis by the relevant authorities," it said. Due to Covid-19, scheduled international passenger services in India have been stopped since March 23, 2020.

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