Even as the government and operators are focused on expanding the infrastructure at airports to deal with the increasing crowds from international flights, an analysis of schedules at the country’s top two international airports — Delhi and Mumbai — points to a bunching of international flight arrivals during one part of the day.
At Delhi, for instance, of the 78 international passenger flights that arrived on Monday, 37 were scheduled to arrive in the 8-hour window from 2am to 10 am. Similarly, at Mumbai, of the 51 international passenger flights scheduled to arrive on Tuesday, 30 arrived between 12 am and 8 am.
Notably, in certain two-hour blocks like 10 am to 12 pm, only three flights arrived in Delhi and only one flight arrived in Mumbai, according to information sourced from flight tracking portal Flightradar24.
