Busy IGI Getting Busier. Here’s How

New Delhi: This winter, Delhi’s IGI Airport could for the first time handle more flights than it did in pre-Covid 2019. While India’s busiest aviation hub saw about 1,500 average aircraft movement in 2019, including all scheduled, non-scheduled, VIP, govt and other flights, the number was yet to be breached so far. That is likely to change soon.

India’s second busiest hub — Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) — handles about 1,000 daily aircraft movement (950 scheduled and the rest non-scheduled) and the constrained airport had hit pre-Covid numbers about two years ago.