Delhi Airport ranked world’s 10th busiest airport: Report

As per the latest development, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has managed to surpass other airports from across the globe in terms of traffic in October, and thereby moved up the list from before the outbreak.

OAG, a company that performs aviation analytics, stated in its study that Delhi Airport has improved from its rank of 14th in October 2019, which was before the pandemic.
The OAG rankings are determined by comparing the current month's scheduled airline capacity to the same month in 2019, prior to the epidemic. And as such, the world’s top 10 busiest airports are ranked based on their combined domestic and international capacity.

As per its reports, the busiest airport in the world in October 2022 was Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which is followed by the airports in Dubai and Tokyo Haneda in second and third place respectively.
OAG in its reports added that when compared to October 2019, airports that have witnessed a rise in their ranking are Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Istanbul, and Delhi.

Further, London Heathrow Airport has been ranked sixth, Chicago O'Hare International Airport is ranked seventh, and Los Angeles International Airport is ranked ninth, according to the OAG study.

The busiest international airport, according to the research, is Dubai International Airport, which is followed by Amsterdam Airport and London Heathrow Airport in that order.

However, the top 10 list of busiest international airports does not include any airports in India.

And as per another survey by OAG, the top 10 busiest international routes include Delhi to Dubai and Mumbai to Dubai. The busiest airline routes are those with the largest volume of scheduled seats during the period from October 2021 to September 2022.

The report added that India is witnessing an increase in route capacity with two routes in the top 10, which operate from Mumbai to Dubai (BOM-DXB) and Delhi to Dubai (DEL-DXB).