Aer Rianta International and Indian Duty Free Services consortium has received LoI from the Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd (DIAL) for license to develop, operate, maintain and manage duty-free outlets at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport's upcoming Terminal III (T3).

DIAL had received proposals from five bidders namely Aldeasa, Aer Rianta-IDFS consortium, Dufry-Interglobe Consortium, Flemingo International and Setur.

Currently, construction work is on for IGI Airport's T3 which is scheduled to commence operations before the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi. T3 will be an integrated terminal handling both domestic and international departure and arrivals. T3 is part of Phase I of IGI Airport's Master Plan development having a total project outlay exceeding $two billion and will increase the airport's capacity to handle more than 60 million passengers per annum.

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