{"id":650499,"date":"2025-10-30T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650499"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:35:00","slug":"all-runways-go-delhi-airport-braces-for-record-winter-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/all-runways-go-delhi-airport-braces-for-record-winter-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"All runways go! Delhi Airport braces for record winter rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) is likely to handle more flights than it did in pre-Covid 2019, according to a Times of India report. India\u2019s busiest aviation hub managed around 1,500 average aircraft movements per day in 2019 including scheduled, non-scheduled, VIP, government, and other flights \u2014 a figure yet to be surpassed until now. That milestone is expected to be crossed soon.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s second-busiest airport, Mumbai\u2019s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), handles around 1,000 daily aircraft movements (950 scheduled and the rest non-scheduled) and had already reached its pre-Covid traffic levels about two years ago. Both IGIA and CSMIA exceeded their 2019 passenger footfall figures two to three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) is likely to handle more flights than it did in pre-Covid 2019, according to a Times of India report. India\u2019s busiest aviation hub managed around 1,500 average aircraft movements per day in 2019 including scheduled, non-scheduled, VIP, government, and other flights \u2014 a figure yet to be surpassed until now. That milestone is expected to be crossed soon. India\u2019s second-busiest airport, Mumbai\u2019s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), handles around 1,000 daily aircraft movements (950 scheduled and the rest non-scheduled) and had already reached its pre-Covid traffic levels about two years ago. [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650499","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=650499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}