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Friday, September 18, 2009

Sprinting to finish line

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"196 days to go!" screams a desktop calendar at the site office of Delhi Airport's upcoming Terminal 3. Outside the office, work on the new international-cum domestic terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport is going on at a frenetic pace.

About one lakh (100,000) visitors, including athletes and officials, are expected in Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Terminal 3 would be their first touch point.

The massive structure of the terminal is already visible as you travel down the road to the existing airport, as 78 per cent work is complete.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Jet to stay grounded

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There's more trouble in store for Jet Airways passengers on Wednesday -unless the airlines' management and its rebellious pilots manage to strike a peace deal overnight.

Jet Airways responded to the mass sick leave taken by 300 of its 760 pilots on Tuesday -which disrupted 186 flights and affected 13,000 passengers -by sacking three more senior commanders associated with its pilots' union.

The National Aviators' Guild (NAG), the pilots' union that Jet Airways does not recognise, retaliated by threatening to "completely shut down operations" on Wednesday.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Trains, flights delayed as north India vanishes under fog blanket

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Thick fog threw life out of gear in Delhi on Monday morning. Road, rail and air traffic were all affected — flights were cancelled, trains delayed and those on the roads were not safe. Three people died on the roads of the Capital in the early hours, while two were killed in Greater Noida.

Countless passengers were stuck at the airport and railway stations due to delays.

Things did not look good for Tuesday morning either, with the Met office predicting bad weather for the next few days.

“This was the worst fog of the season in Delhi and adjoining areas,” said B.P. Yadav, spokesman for the India Meteorological Department (IMD). “Heavy snowfall in the hilly states coupled with rainfall in the neighbouring states injected moisture in the air that lashed Delhi and caused the fog. This condition will prevail for a couple of days.”

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