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Delhi airport to have 4 runways Suveen K Sinha & Bipin Chandran / New Delhi February 16, 2006 GMR draws up Rs 20,000 crore makeover plan. The GMR-Fraport consortium, which has won the government's contract to modernise the Delhi airports, has drawn up a Rs 20,000-crore makeover plan to be implemented in the first 15 years. This includes three all-new terminals, each capable of handling 35 million passengers a year. These will be integrated, handling domestic as well as international traffic. According to details of the consortium's forthcoming master plan gathered by Business Standard, the first of the new terminals will come up in under three-and-a-half years from the date of signing of the operational management and development agreement with the government. The existing terminal will then be used for other purposes, such as housing airlines' offices. The Delhi airport will eventually have four runways. **A parallel runway will be constructed by the end of the second year itself to ease traffic congestion** - it is common for flights to circle for 25-30 minutes waiting for landing clearance - against the mandatory requirement of a new runway by 2010. >> --------------- The construction of a parallel runway in two years will be worth watching as at present the runways converge! Go Delhi go!