{"id":489428,"date":"2022-05-05T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489428"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T07:16:20","slug":"igia-replaces-dubai-as-worlds-2nd-busiest-airport-in-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/igia-replaces-dubai-as-worlds-2nd-busiest-airport-in-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"IGIA replaces Dubai as world\u2019s 2nd-busiest airport in Mar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) emerged as the world\u2019s second-busiest airport in March, in terms of total seat capacity and frequency of domestic and international flights. IGIA handled about 31.65 million domestic passengers and 5.49 million international ones.  It had emerged as the top airport in the country in terms of handling domestic as well as international passenger traffic in 2020 and 2021. Now it has surpassed China\u2019s Guangzhou airport, which was the fourth-busiest airport globally. Before the pandemic, IGIA had ranked 23rd among the busiest airports of the world. According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), a leading global travel data provider, whilst Atlanta retains its position as the largest,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) emerged as the world\u2019s second-busiest airport in March, in terms of total seat capacity and frequency of domestic and international flights. IGIA handled about 31.65 million domestic passengers and 5.49 million international ones. It had emerged as the top airport in the country in terms of handling domestic as well as international passenger traffic in 2020 and 2021. Now it has surpassed China\u2019s Guangzhou airport, which was the fourth-busiest airport globally. Before the pandemic, IGIA had ranked 23rd among the busiest airports of the world. According to the Official Airline Guide (OAG), a leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489428","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}