A leading global travel data operator, Official Airline Guide (OAG), revealed that Delhi Airport has emerged as the world’s second busiest airport after Atlanta in March 2022, in terms of total seat capacity and frequency of domestic and international flights.
The Delhi airport handled about 31.65 million domestic passengers and 5.49 million international traffic in CY 2021. It emerged as the topmost among all Indian airports in terms of handling domestic as well as international passenger traffic in CY 2020 and CY 2021.
Delhi International Airport, with a seating capacity of 3,611,181 seats, is also India’s second busiest airport and has knocked out Dubai International Airport (3,554,527 seats).
Delhi airport had ranked third after Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Dubai International Airport as per the last ranking issued in March for February 2022. It managed to surpass China’s Guangzhou airport, which was the fourth busiest airport across the globe.
The list is as follows:
1. Atlanta Hartsfield-jackson Intl Apt (4,422,436 Seats)
2. Delhi (3,611,181 Seats)
3. Dubai International (3,554,527 Seats)
4. London Heathrow Apt (3,510,941 Seats)
5. Dallas Dallas/Fort Worth Intl Apt (3,460,566 Seats)
6. Chicago O’Hare International Apt (3,293,417 Seats)
7. Los Angeles International Apt (3,226,369 Seats)
8. Denver Intl Apt (3,179,730 Seats)
9. Tokyo Intl (Haneda) (3,114,035 Seats)
10. Guangzhou (3,082,153 Seats)
The rankings are based on scheduled capacity in the current month and compared to the equivalent month in 2019 before the pandemic.
With the help of domestic and international seat capacity and frequency of flights from a particular airport, the world’s busiest airports are calculated.
Courtesy: ORG
