Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport becomes the 12th busiest airport in the world

Setting another new record for itself, the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has climbed up four spots to be the 12th busiest airport in the world. The IGIA airport has beaten up busy cosmopolitan centres like the Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Dallas Forth Worth, and Istanbul Ataturk airports.
Reportedly, the preliminary world airport traffic rankings released in 2018 by the Airports Council International (ACI), the IGIA was rated the fastest growing airport of the top 20 airports. Statistics showed that the IGIA dealt with 6.9 crore domestic and international passengers in 2018 which happens to be 10.2percent more than the number recorded in the year 2017.

According to the reports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam Schiphol, Shanghai Pudong and Hong Kong, the four airports ranked above New Delhi’s IGIA, dealt with about 46 lakh passengers more than the number achieved by the IGIA. In fact, reports state that if the IGIA had accomplished its expansion project on time, it would have ranked at the 10th spot in 2018.
Since, India is the fastest growing aviation market in the world and Delhi is the busiest airport, the IGIA is expected to grow by leaps and bounds once its expansion is complete.

In addition, more developments in store at the IGI airport such as IGI Airport in Delhi such as introducing of ‘express check-in’ facility for handbag-only passengers flying within India.