Mumbai: The city airport leads Dubai and Tokyo by a wide margin in private jet departures at around 1,516 outbound aircraft movements in 2018, which is 8.28 percent higher thanthe Gulf city at 1,400, and 20 percent over those in the Japanese capital at 1,202, finds a report.
It can be noted that Mumbai has been the world’s busiest single-runway airport handling close to 1,000 flights a day for the third year in a row in 2018, after Gatwick near London, while the Dubaiairport is the world’s largest aviation hub.
The top rank is held by New York, thanks to the city being home to the world’s largest number of rich people, with 66,968 private jet departures in 2018, while Mumbai is ranked 146, according to a study on the travel trends of ultra-high networth individuals by Knight Frank Friday.
