Chaos at Delhi airport: Flyers made to wait 3-4 hours for security check-in. 'Saw this myself,' says Radhika Gupta'

Edelweiss Mutual Funds CEO Radhika Gupta has revealed that when she had to board a Vistara flight from Delhi recently, she was told that the waiting time at the security check-in at T3 terminal was 256 minutes. That's over four hours. She, however, did not end up missing her flight because of "the kindness of Vistara staff".

The Shark Tank India judge was responding to a post on X where a senior journalist complained of crowding at the same terminal. "People are on the verge of missing their flights," Krishna Kant (@KantKrishna30), a senior associate editor with Business Standard shared on X with a video and tagged the official profiles of the ministry of civil aviation and the Delhi airport.

Gupta retweeted the video and said that she had experienced a similar situation. "I saw this myself. A harrowed (don’t blame him) airline staff told me the average wait time at security was 256 minutes. 256 minutes. Was fortunate to make the flight because of the kindness of Vistara staff but do hope it is addressed," she wrote.

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport was recently declared the 10th busiest airport in the world, with a passenger traffic of 72.2 million flyers and on Wednesday evening, people took to X to share pictures of long queues at the check-in counters.

"If you are flying from T3 Delhi, make sure to reach airport 3 hours before. Look at the current situation. Lines are this big that it's reaching the check in counters. Digiyatra or no digityatra everyone is entring the digityatra queue. Chaotic!" wrote entrepreneur Priyesh Sharma (@Kenu73).