Delhi’s new airport: construction to start, for 2022 opening

A Foundation Stone will shortly be laid to mark the start of construction work on Delhi's second airport, which will be a P3 transaction. The project was announced well after the second airport for Mumbai but has caught it up, and the chances are it will open in 2022.

As usual, there has been a myriad of hurdles to jump along the way, including in this instance advice from IATA not to decentralise operations.

But civil aviation in India is evolving rapidly and the second airport - which itself is expected to fill up rapidly - does at least offer the authorities options to meet the demands of that evolution.