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Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport (DEL), located in Delhi, is one of India's main domestic and international gateways. The airport has been named after former prime minister Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. It is the second busiest airport in South Asia.
Earlier known as Palam Airport, it was renamed IGI airport with the inauguration of a new international terminal (Terminal 2), shaped like a trapezoid on 2 May 1986. The trapezoid terminal(international) has 9 jetbridges (Parking stands 41-50 and has had many complaints about shabbiness. Nevertheless, the airport is undergoing construction. The older Palam Airport, now known as Terminal 1, is exclusively used for domestic operations. Terminal 1 has further been divided into three separate terminals - 1A (for domestic flights of state owned Indian), 1B (for all other domestic airlines) and Domestic Arrival Terminal. There is also a separate Technical Area for the use of VVIP movements. Additionally there is a separate Hajj terminal for catering rush during Hajj.
The capacity of Terminal 1 is estimated to be 7.15 million passengers per annum (mppa). However, the actual throughput for 2005/06 was an estimated 10.4 million passengers. Including the international terminal (Terminal 2), the airport has a total capacity of 12.5 mppa whereas the total passenger traffic in 2005/06 was 16.2 million passengers per annum. There is a free transfer shuttle between the terminals.
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