India, March 17 -- The Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport has introduced "slot banks" - a system that improves flight timing coordination and ensures faster connections, officials with the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), which operates IGI, said on Sunday.

As part of the slot banks system, a group of flights arrive and depart at specific times - thus making connecting flights much easier and quicker - and will be a key step in establishing IGI as a passenger hub airport, officials said. Such systems are already operational in several top airports such as Changi in Singapore and Dubai.

"To support the growth of the hub, Delhi airport is expanding its capacity, including increasing arrival and departure banks (also call...