Country’s busiest airport slows down on flight movements

Mumbai: From 720 flights daily to 650 now, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport loses top spot on Air Traffic Movements to Delhi; still has maximum passenger traffic.
Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), often referred to as the country’s busiest, does not hold that title, for now, in terms of Air Traffic Movements (ATMs). It has lost that top spot to Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI).
Data provided by Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) and Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), the private operators of the country’s top two airports, shows that New Delhi has taken the lead on ATMs per day for the past four months. However, in terms of passenger movements, CSIA still occupies top spot.
For the period April to July 2008, CSIA recorded an average of 650 flight movements per day, while Delhi’s IGI Airport recorded 680 flights per day. In the same period last year, Mumbai saw 720 flight movements per day compared to 607 daily flight movements at IGI.
“At the Delhi airport, growth in traffic is seen as normal because additional slots for airlines are coming from Delhi, not from Mumbai because of Mumbai airport’s space constraints,” said a Delhi airport official not wishing to be named, adding that several Mumbai flights have been cancelled because airlines do not get their desired slots.
01/09/08 Shashank Shekhar/Expressindia

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Categories: Airports Sep 2008