Time to Clear Immigration at DEL T3 at 3 am
Dec 17, 2014, 5:50 am
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Time to Clear Immigration at DEL T3 at 3 am
Hi All,
I am arriving at DEL T3 from AUH Friday morning at 3:15 am. How busy is Immigration and Customs that time? I have a meeting later that morning and want to a few hours sleep at my hotel before I go. Do I have a chance of being at the hotel (the Taj) by 5 am? Is there a premium line for J pax?
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I am arriving at DEL T3 from AUH Friday morning at 3:15 am. How busy is Immigration and Customs that time? I have a meeting later that morning and want to a few hours sleep at my hotel before I go. Do I have a chance of being at the hotel (the Taj) by 5 am? Is there a premium line for J pax?
Thanks!
Dec 17, 2014, 6:01 am
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There is a premium line. 1 minute to 25 minutes is my experience at that time, mostly around 5-15 minutes minutes most of the time I arrive at DEL since the new airport terminal opened.
Dec 17, 2014, 6:16 am
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Yes. As long as you don't have checked bags you should easily make it to the Taj Mansingh Rd hotel or the Taj palace hotel by or well before 5 am. I used to more or less live a few minutes walk from the Taj Mansingh Road hotel and would head there instead of to the house to grab food at 4-5:30 am at one of the hotel restaurants or even before if coming in from Europe instead of the Gulf.
I would expect to get to the hotel around 4:45 am
I would expect to get to the hotel around 4:45 am
Dec 18, 2014, 12:33 pm
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at that time it should not take you more than 10 minutes to cross immigration & 20-25 minutes to get to your hotel from the airport....how long your checked bags take is another question....i've had bags come in as quickly as 5 minutes & as long as 30 minutes....
Dec 19, 2014, 1:50 am
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They are currently doing an Ebola bureaucracy screening before immigration that took much longer than immigration. I didn't see any premium line for this screening, which is basically filling out a form, then waiting in a horribly disorderly mobbed line (this is India after all), for some official to stamp it and allow you onwards to immigration.
Jan 5, 2015, 6:30 pm
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Yeah, that part was not fun, but the rest of the process went smoothly. I was a very easy arrival, all things considered.
Will be doing it again this weekend, this time arriving on Qatar.
Will be doing it again this weekend, this time arriving on Qatar.