International Airport

Are you still languishing in traffic and obsessing that horn button of yours while losing your temper at that silly call center driver? Or has missing your flight become commonplace? Delhi walas do not fear. The Delhi Metro or should I say DAMEPL (Delhi Metro Express Pvt. Limited) has recently unveiled the spanking new Airport Express Line. But the question that remains is if it is the first class experience it claims to be or is it a white elephant? Read on to know more.

How it started

The Tendering process for this project started in September 2007 after which on Jan 23, 2008, Reliance Infrastructure and the CAF consortium was awarded a 30 year contract. Although originally this project was scheduled to complete around India’s Commonwealth Games, teething troubles in shifting Airport operations to the new terminal T3 delayed the opening of the Airport Express line to February 23 2011.

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