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Friday, 23 December 2016

Delhi airport is the busiest in the world for Airbus A320 flights

Mumbai: Delhi airport is in headlines because of fog and flight delays but there is some cheerful news too.

Delhi airport sees the highest number of Airbus A320 flights in the world, according to a report by aviation website anna.aero.

The website, which tracks airline network planning, analysed aircraft type wise departures for the first week of August. The report was released earlier in the week.
While Dubai airport has the highest number of Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 flights, Delhi tops the list for A320 movements.


According to the report, Delhi has 1698 departures with A320 aircraft per week - that is over 242 daily departures. Shanghai Pudong and Barcelona airports were ranked second and third with 1496 and 1495 weekly departures.

With over 20 per cent increase in domestic air traffic airlines are adding planes. Capacity expansion is led by IndiGo which has a fleet of 124 Airbus A320s which is the second highest in the world.
To Read the News in Full 17/12/16 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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