Low-cost carriers propel Delhi airport into the 60-mn passenger club

One of the 20 busiest airports in the world, IGI handled more passengers than Changi, Incheon and Jakarta in 2017

A robust number of domestic air passengers last year made Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport the sixth-busiest airport in Asia and one of the top 20 busiest in the world. It entered the 60-million club by handling as many as 63.5 million passengers in 2017 – more than some of the busiest airports like Changi, Incheon and Jakarta.

Of the 21 airports that handled more than 60 million passengers during the year, 10 were in Asia, five in North America, five in Europe, and one in the Gulf. 

The rate of overall traffic growth, however, slowed to 14 per cent in