the chaotic scenario and neverending queues at delhi airports have become a hot topic on social media recently with netizens posting both concerned and tongueincheek tweets comparing the airport to a train station mocking the inceptionlike queuewithinaqueuewithinaqueue you get the picture saga one has to face at the airport comic amit tandon tweeted recently lounge at mumbai international airport has a longer queue than the check in counter sic to this someone replied cant be longer than the line at delhi airport to enter the airport at the same time sharing a picture of the overcrowded delhi airport entrepreneur kiran mazumdar shaw tweeted not a train station this is delhi airport under omicron rulesits obvious that the airport testing upon arrival will cause pandemonium n a transmission hot spot but whos listening sicairport was crowded for two days due to new guidelines operations are now smooth says delhi airport officiala delhi airport official says while the airport was crowded for the initial two days after the guidelines were issued operations are now smooth people are also opting for rtpcr tests for which they can get results within 90 minutes and not miss their flight while talking about complaints regarding passengers temperatures not being checked the officials said body temperature is not checked at the airport because there is a mass thermal screening system installed to screen all passengers he adds we have also made provisions for separate parking for flights coming from high risk countries so that they do not come in contact with other passengers videh kumar jaipuriar ceodial said in a statement that apart from installing extra rapid rtpcr machines and test counters we are also working closely with the immigration authorities to facilitate swift movement of passengers seating arrangements have been vastly expanded and food counters have been made available in the waiting areadomestic air traffic in india is up by 05 despite reports of rising omicron casesas per uk aviation data company oag domestic air traffic in india is up by 05 despite reports of rising omicron cases if anything the newly detected covid19 variant has led to people preponing international travel plans as those abroad scramble to find tickets to return home there was overcrowding outside the airport at checkin food counters and the waiting areaa traveller who flew to london this week described her airport experience as quite chaotic first we had to wait in a queue for around 1520 minutes to get inside once i entered the airport it felt like the pandemic never happened there was overcrowding at checkin queues food counters and the waiting area no one was following any social distancing whatsoever she says the passenger adds i wouldnt say it felt like a railway station because i recently travelled by train and the station was definitely less crowded than the airport another person whose family flew to india says they encountered a stampedelike situation at the airport and called it the worst experience of their liveson