{"id":455680,"date":"2021-12-13T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455680"},"modified":"2021-12-13T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:48:59","slug":"delhis-igi-worlds-fifth-busiest-airport-due-to-revival-of-domestic-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-igi-worlds-fifth-busiest-airport-due-to-revival-of-domestic-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s IGI world\u2019s fifth busiest airport due to revival of domestic travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi International Airport has emerged as the world\u2019s fifth busiest airport this month, thanks to the revival of domestic air travel, and despite postponement of regular international flights due to Omicron.<br \/>\nThe same reasons have made IndiGo \u2014 which flies six in every 10 domestic passengers \u2014 the eighth biggest airline in terms of seat deployment in December. And despite limited capacity and steep fares under the bubble system, India-UAE is currently the world\u2019s fourth busiest country pair for international travel, according to UK-based air consultancy firm OAG.<br \/>\nIn terms of seat deployment by airlines this month, only four airports are ahead of IGI (33.5 lakh) \u2014 Atlanta (44 lakh), Dubai (35.4 lakh), Dallas Forth Worth (35.3 lakh) and Guangzhou (35.1 lakh). Hubs, such as London Heathrow, New York JFK, Paris CDG, Tokyo Haneda and Chicago O\u2019Hare, are lower down this list of OAG. \u201cEight of the top 20 airports are in the US, reflecting the strength of the US domestic market,\u201d OAG said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi International Airport has emerged as the world\u2019s fifth busiest airport this month, thanks to the revival of domestic air travel, and despite postponement of regular international flights due to Omicron. The same reasons have made IndiGo \u2014 which flies six in every 10 domestic passengers \u2014 the eighth biggest airline in terms of seat deployment in December. And despite limited capacity and steep fares under the bubble system, India-UAE is currently the world\u2019s fourth busiest country pair for international travel, according to UK-based air consultancy firm OAG. In terms of seat deployment by airlines this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}