Mumbai: Air India's focus on Delhi as a base for its global operations has led to a surge in the airport's transit passengers, getting it closer to its goal of becoming an aviation hub.
In the year ended March 31, about 16% of the airport's total 34 million yearly passengers are those in transit, compared to a 13% of 37 million a year earlier and 9% of 28 million in the year before that, according to figures from International Air Transport Association.
In the next year, the chunk of transit passengers in Delhi is estimated to go up to 18%, said a spokesperson for the Delhi International Airport Ltd, the GMR-controlled consortium that runs the airport.
"Surprisingly, international-to-international forms the biggest chunk of our transit passengers," she said, adding the remainder is constituted by fliers transiting between domestic destinations; international to domestic and domestic to international.
Read News In Full 12/09/13 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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