New Delhi: Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) created a new record this month and marched ahead of all Indian airports.
The airport witnessed 1,082 flight movements a fortnight ago, the highest-ever for any civil Indian airport and also saw a daily average of 1,035 movements this month.
The Delhi airport is now the busiest airport in the country, in both the categories of air traffic movement and passenger traffic.
It has long overtaken the Mumbai airport by not only catering to more passengers (40.99 million compared to Mumbai's 36.63 million in 2014-15) but also handling many more flights, which apart from scheduled commercial flights, also includes chartered flights, VIP flights and helicopter movements.
Delhi airport has been able to handle increasing number of domestic and international airlines and flights thanks to its three runways (28/10, 29/11 and 27/09) that often operate simultaneously. IGIA also holds the record for handling more flight movements per hour, which oscillates between an average of 65 per hour to 75 per hour during peak traffic hours.
19/11/15 Sidhartha Roy/The Hindu
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The airport witnessed 1,082 flight movements a fortnight ago, the highest-ever for any civil Indian airport and also saw a daily average of 1,035 movements this month.
The Delhi airport is now the busiest airport in the country, in both the categories of air traffic movement and passenger traffic.
It has long overtaken the Mumbai airport by not only catering to more passengers (40.99 million compared to Mumbai's 36.63 million in 2014-15) but also handling many more flights, which apart from scheduled commercial flights, also includes chartered flights, VIP flights and helicopter movements.
Delhi airport has been able to handle increasing number of domestic and international airlines and flights thanks to its three runways (28/10, 29/11 and 27/09) that often operate simultaneously. IGIA also holds the record for handling more flight movements per hour, which oscillates between an average of 65 per hour to 75 per hour during peak traffic hours.
19/11/15 Sidhartha Roy/The Hindu
