Centre boosts infra in ease of travel push

Passengers travelling during the peak travel season this winter can expect reduced inconvenience at 16 key airports, as the government has boosted security infrastructure to ensure ease of travel

- Neha LM Tripathi

Authorities have reviewed boarding and check-in infrastructure at smaller airports too this year, the civil aviation ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

“Metro airport operators of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai airports were directed to identify bottlenecks in passenger processing and augment their capacities to meet the growing passenger demands. Subsequently, 10 more airports, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Goa, Patna, Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Trivandrum and Cochin, were identified in September ‘23, where the airport operators were sensitised to take proactive measures to avoid congestion by augmenting capacities, wherever required,” the ministry said.