History

Till 1962, the major airport in the capital city was Safdarjung Airport which was constructed during 1930. Because of the increase in passenger traffic, the civil transport was shifted in 1962 to Palam (renamed as IGIA). During II World War, British people constructed Palam Airport by the name of RAF Station Palam and later on assigned as Air Force Station for Indian Air Force.

This Airport consumed a population of 1,300 passengers for every hour. To manage this traffic, supplementary terminal with four times the space of Palam Airport was developed during 1970s. On May 2, 1986 this new Terminal 2 (International terminal) was inaugurated in the name of Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).

Public Private Partnership

On January 31 2006, Praful Patel (Indian aviation minister) announced the decision of empowered ministers to transfer the management rights of Mumbai airport to GVK-led group and Delhi Airport to DIAL Group.

May 2 2006, the process of handing over and taking over took place successfully.

DIAL (Delhi International Airport Limited) is a combined organization of India Development Fund (3.9%), Malaysia Airports (10%), Fraport (10%), GMR Group (50.1%) and 26% of the share is retained by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).