International airport council ranks Delhi’s IGIA ninth busiest in the world

Delhi`s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport has been ranked because the 9th busiest airport withinside the international in 2022, coping with 59.5 million passengers annually, statistics shared via way of means of the Airports Council International (ACI) World – a worldwide agency which measures and assesses airport requirements– confirmed on Wednesday. The IGI Airport become ranked thirteenth in 2021, whilst it become the seventeenth busiest airport in 2019, earlier than the pandemic.

ACI statistics additionally confirmed a 60.2% growth in passenger site visitors compared to remaining 12 months on the IGI Airport, however, it's far nevertheless 13.1% decrease than 2019, indicating that despite the fact that passenger site visitors has stabilised, it's far but to attain pre-pandemic levels.

The IGI Airport become additionally the most effective airport from south and southeast Asia to make the pinnacle 10 list. According to the ACI report, the pinnacle 10 airports for overall passenger site visitors, representing 10% of world site visitors, witnessed a advantage of 51.7% from 2021. The standard passenger site visitors at those airports become, however, round 85% in evaluation with 2019 figures. “Preliminary figures imply that with the resumption of worldwide tour, 2022 worldwide passenger site visitors reached near 7 billion, representing an growth of 53.five% from 2021, or a 73.8% healing from 2019 results,” ACI stated withinside the report.

The international`s busiest airport, with 93.6 million passengers in 2022, remained Georgia`s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which become additionally the busiest airport in 2021 and 2019. The IGI Airport become one role at the back of London`s Heathrow Airport, which dealt with 61.6 million passengers, whilst Paris` Charles de Gaulle Airport become the tenth busiest airport withinside the international after the Delhi airport, coping with 57.four million passengers.

Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, CEO of International Airport Limited (DIAL), IGI Aiport`s operator, stated the Delhi airport believes in being future-ready, whilst making sure worldwide requirements of passenger revel in for travellers.

“This feat is a end result of the collective efforts of all our stakeholders. The Indian aviation quarter is writing a brand new bankruptcy and the Delhi airport is operating intently with the crucial authorities to make it a achievement story,” he stated.

ACI international director General Luis Felipe de Oliveira stated: “The new pinnacle 10 busiest airports for passenger site visitors mirror the resilience of the airport and aviation industry, and the fervour of passengers to tour via way of means of air. The ongoing healing of air tour call for could now no longer be viable with out the non-stop paintings of airports to offer a safe, secure, efficient, and sustainable air shipping environment for the passengers that we rely on and the groups we serve.”