Passenger trials successful

“We are happy with the outcome (of the trials). It was a successful one. We are able to learn more from the public who compared the facilities at the new airport with those around the world,” Lorenz said. “They were generous enough to give us their feedback, which we will seriously look into.”

A common check-in system has been introduced, in which passengers don’t have to wait till a gate is opened for checking in.

“An airline will have a dedicated set of counters. One can check in any time for any flight before the gateclosing time,” he said.

OAMC carried out trials for stakeholders, ministerial delegations and aviation personnel recently, following which several “additions and deletions” were made based on the feedback.

“This is the 16th trial in which we have invited members of society to take part and give feedback,” Shilpi Singh, Training & Familiarisation Facilitator (ORAT) at OAMC, said.

The airport will have 96 check-in counters with eight rows. The new airport will be able to accommodate 20 million passengers upon commissioning. “The airport’s actual handling capacity is 20m passengers,” said Lorenz.

The airport will offer both staff and passengers international standards of safety, the training for which has been going on for some time.