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An aviation hub: Indian airports must upgrade to attract global travellers

Air India's major competitor domestically, low-cost carrier IndiGo, has also ramped up international operations of late

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Business Standard Editorial Comment Mumbai
It has been reported that Air India, the country’s only remaining major full-service carrier, intends to try and increase its attractiveness to international travellers — both those wishing to fly in and out of India as well as those that might find it convenient to use an Indian airport as a transit hub while travelling between two international destinations. The airline has said that Delhi airport, India’s most trafficked, receives less than a hundredth of the 130 million or so passengers who pass through India’s airspace annually; Dubai, in comparison, receives 10 per cent of these and Doha 7.5 per

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