Indy airport preps for holiday travel as COVID cases surge

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis International Airport Executive Director Mario Rodriquez says the airdrome has accrued the occurrence and constabulary beingness successful the greeting hours implicit the adjacent 2 weeks to assistance with lawsuit service. Rodriguez says it’s owed to the surge successful COVID cases.

“We privation to marque definite we person much than we request to supply customers [answers to their] questions and if they person anxiousness astir flying oregon immoderate questions they whitethorn person due to the fact that a batch of the lines are going to beryllium long,” Rodriquez said.

Rodriquez says they person been keeping the airdrome cleanable astatine astir “hospital people levels.” He tells I-Team 8 the airdrome has utilized the pandemic arsenic an accidental to amended itself, including the instauration of technological improvements.

“You could [order nutrient from] your telephone and it’ll beryllium delivered to you successful your terminal. There’s nary crushed to discontinue these practices and sanitation and making definite things are kept to a precocious level of information for passengers,” helium said.

Rodriquez says the busiest times to alert during the Christmas vacation is successful the morning. He says expect information to instrumentality astatine slightest 30 minutes and suggests travelers get astatine slightest 2 hours earlier their flight.