Delhi airport unveils new runway, takes daily flight capacity to 2,000

Delhi airport on Friday opened its fourth runway, which will allow the country’s largest airport to increase its capacity to almost 2,000 flights per day from current 1,500. The GMR group-operated airport is now South Asia’s only airport to have four runways. “This runway, along with terminal expansion, will add to creating capacity to serve more than 109 million people throughput which would crest and beat even Atlanta in its capability,” civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.