DigiYatra and two Primus rooms help; fog + one strip still need buffers.

CHIAL lists DigiYatra among passenger facilities for enrolled domestic travellers, but IXC remains a single-runway civil enclave on an IAF campus with IndiGo-heavy banks and winter fog risk. Domestic ~2 hours early is the sane default; international Gulf banks want a full ~3 hours for check-in, CISF, and outbound immigration. Primus Domestic publishes 04:00–23:00 — useless for a sub-04:00 push — while Primus International’s 00:00–23:59 window is the overnight entitlement story when your PP lists that pin.

One building today; sector signs and the correct Primus pin still matter.

There is no T1/T2 campus hop. Domestic and international share the Mohali integrated terminal, but CIQ, gate clusters, and the live Priority Pass Primus pins (domestic vs international, both after SHA on the 1st floor) do not. Screenshot IXC ≠ ATQ ≠ DEL before the car leaves Sector 17 / Mohali / Panchkula. Expansion blogs and aggregator lounge lists are not a substitute for live FIDS and the Priority Pass app.

Two PP Primus soft rooms; landside bottles beat airside pricing.

Live Priority Pass product is Primus ×2 (domestic 04:00–23:00; international 00:00–23:59) — classic soft rooms with a published 2-hour max stay, not restaurant set-menu pins. Domestic Primus lists standard alcohol as extra payment; international Primus lists complimentary luggage storage. Without entitlement, buy sealed water and snacks landside before CISF; airside markup is the usual Indian-airport tax and F&B depth is limited versus Delhi or Amritsar’s larger retail benches.

Road access only; rail and ISBT stops are separate city transfers.

Use CHIAL-listed radio taxi / prepaid counters in arrivals or signed app cabs for the ~18 km Jhiurheri–Sector 17 run. City buses exist as a daylight budget option when signed; late nights default to taxi / rideshare. Chandigarh railway station and ISBT Sector 17 / 43 are separate road transfers — do not invent a metro, airport rail link, or sterile landside train platform from Chandigarh master-plan wishlists.

DigiYatra and two Primus rooms help; fog + one strip still need buffers.

CHIAL lists DigiYatra among passenger facilities for enrolled domestic travellers, but IXC remains a single-runway civil enclave on an IAF campus with IndiGo-heavy banks and winter fog risk. Domestic ~2 hours early is the sane default; international Gulf banks want a full ~3 hours for check-in, CISF, and outbound immigration. Primus Domestic publishes 04:00–23:00 — useless for a sub-04:00 push — while Primus International’s 00:00–23:59 window is the overnight entitlement story when your PP lists that pin.

One building today; sector signs and the correct Primus pin still matter.

There is no T1/T2 campus hop. Domestic and international share the Mohali integrated terminal, but CIQ, gate clusters, and the live Priority Pass Primus pins (domestic vs international, both after SHA on the 1st floor) do not. Screenshot IXC ≠ ATQ ≠ DEL before the car leaves Sector 17 / Mohali / Panchkula. Expansion blogs and aggregator lounge lists are not a substitute for live FIDS and the Priority Pass app.

Two PP Primus soft rooms; landside bottles beat airside pricing.

Live Priority Pass product is Primus ×2 (domestic 04:00–23:00; international 00:00–23:59) — classic soft rooms with a published 2-hour max stay, not restaurant set-menu pins. Domestic Primus lists standard alcohol as extra payment; international Primus lists complimentary luggage storage. Without entitlement, buy sealed water and snacks landside before CISF; airside markup is the usual Indian-airport tax and F&B depth is limited versus Delhi or Amritsar’s larger retail benches.

Road access only; rail and ISBT stops are separate city transfers.

Use CHIAL-listed radio taxi / prepaid counters in arrivals or signed app cabs for the ~18 km Jhiurheri–Sector 17 run. City buses exist as a daylight budget option when signed; late nights default to taxi / rideshare. Chandigarh railway station and ISBT Sector 17 / 43 are separate road transfers — do not invent a metro, airport rail link, or sterile landside train platform from Chandigarh master-plan wishlists.