SURFACE From Sept 2010, New Delhi to airport in 18 minutes Metro stations at New Delhi and Shivaji Stadium will have check-in points with automatic baggage handling facility for those heading for the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The high-speed line becomes operational in September 2010. The maximum fare between New Delhi and the airport will not exceed Rs 150. And the specially designed trains would cover the distance in 18 minutes. DMRC is carrying out the civil work for the project being done on a public-private partnership model. A joint venture between Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and Caf will handle the operations on the line for 30 years after which the line will be handed over to DMRC. Initially, trains would run every 10 minutes with minimum 20 hours of service per day. In all probability, it would be turned into a 24-hour facility with one-track operations during lean hours. The Shivaji Stadium station -being called as a mini-airport terminal owing to its size -would have state-of-the-art ambience with commercial area, a concourse and platforms 20 metre below the ground level.