IGI ranks one among World's Most Delayed Airports

Washington: Traveling to India and China? Pack your patience. Airports in those countries top our third annual list of The World's Most Delayed Airports.
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport takes the prize for the airport with the least timely arrivals with just 45% of its scheduled passenger flights arriving on time. Beijing Capital International Airport has the worst departure record with just 38% of commercial passenger flights leaving as scheduled. To gather our information, we relied on FlightStats, a service that tracks historical and real-time flight information around the globe.
Officials from Delhi's and Beijing's airports could not be reached for comment, but their status should come as no surprise. Both were at or near the top of our most-delayed list last year.
Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and Istanbul Ataturk International Airport round out the top three worst airports for timely arrivals. For departures, Dubai International Airport and Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport follow Beijing.
A flight is considered "on time" if it arrives or departs less than 15 minutes after its scheduled take-off or landing time. In many cases delays can be attributed to growing pains at a particular airport. For example: Delhi's airport expects to open a new terminal later in 2010; Mumbai's airport plans a massive expansion by 2015; and Cairo International (fourth worst for departures at 54.7%) was forced to close one of its two runways in 2009 to accommodate construction for a third runway.
22/01/10 Brian Wingfield and Deborah Weinstein/Forbes.com

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Categories: Airports Jan 2010