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I have noticed that even with a steep rise in the fuel prices air travel is still getting cheaper by the day and the tickets are cheaper then what they were about three years ago and that too with almost a 25% difference.

The reason behind this price cut seems to be increased competition and every other flight goes full so there is not fear of making losses on that front either which prompts airlines to keep the prices low to lure more customers. India has also emerged as the largest aircraft market recently with so many orders being placed for new aircrafts.

Delhi’s International Airport IGIA has joined together with the most successful computer company IBM. The company will implement an enterprise resource planning system at the IGI airport. This will in total increase and make the business faster at the airport and also modernise it. By the year 2010 the airport will become one of the largest airports in the region, after all it will have a new terminal built too. The new airport will be designed to take a capacity of 100 million passengers per year.

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I have seen a lot of airports in the world from North american airports to Europe and middle east, been to some south Asian countries and a few other places but have never seen a worse airport then New Delhi.It might have been considered a very good one 25 years back when it was built with little foresite that traffic will increase in future.

You can see rubbish every where and people can just park thier cars infront of the departures terminal and sit there for hours occupying half the road.

I have seen some cars parked for more then half an hour myself where there is no parking allowed atall and is supposed to be a drop off point.Talk about cleanlyness and you will not find delhi airport any where near that word.

A massive growth in passenger traffic, mainly due to low fares and more number of planes on the Indian sky, marked an accident-free aviation scene in 2006, which also saw a botched Jet-Sahara takeover deal and the mega merger of the two state-owned airlines taking shape.

The year also saw the handing over of two major airports at Delhi and Mumbai to private sector-led Joint Venture firms for modernisation, despite protests by airport employees and Left parties. However, the roadmap for modernisation of Kolkata and Chennai airport was far from being finalised.

Air-India and Indian placed orders for 68 and 43 aircraft respectively, as did the private carriers for a large number of planes, which have already started arriving.

Major initiatives were taken to improve and enhance the aviation infrastructure, with the work on upgradation and modernisation of several of the 35 identified non-metro airports across the country beginning at a rapid pace.

In the face of high fuel prices hitting their bottomlines, all major carriers, including Air-India and Indian, formed the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), which several experts feared could lead to cartelisation in the aviation industry.

While terror threats abroad made air travel cumbersome due to restrictions on items that can be carried in hand baggage, fog, as usual during winters in Delhi and other northern airports, played havoc with arrivals and departures of flights though for fewer days than in the past.

A far worse scenario was witnessed at London-Heathrow where the airport was virtually closed with large number of flights being cancelled and others delayed.