INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Indira Gandhi International Airport jumped from 22nd rank in 2016 to 16th in 2017.Mumbai: New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport
has jumped six places to enter the league of the top 20 busiest airports in the world for 2017 in terms of traffic
The GMR group-run airport jumped from the 22nd position in 2016 to 16th, solidifying its status as one of the fastest-growing airports in
the world for passenger traffic, according to the Airports Council International
ACI, a trade association of the world's airports, said the ranking is based on the preliminary passenger traffic results for the
markets in the world in the years to come, ACI added.Here are five key things to know about ACI's ranking of the world's busiest airports
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) was ranked the busiest airport in the world with 103 million passengers (both
departing and arriving) despite a 0.3 per cent decline in traffic volumes over 2016.2
ACI's world airport traffic forecasts also predicts that India will represent the third largest aviation market, in terms of passenger
throughput, after the US and China by 2020.3
Delhi IGI Airport, the country's busiest airport for passenger traffic, grew by 14.1 per cent year-over-year at 63.45 million, pushing it up
from 22nd to the 16th busiest airport in the world, the ACI said in the release.4
Delhi was also ranked first in Airport Service Quality for airports above 40 million passengers per annum along with Mumbai 's Chhatrapati
Shivaji International Airport.5
Besides, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai were also ranked among the fastest growing airports in the world with an year-over-year
growth of 26.9 per cent, 19.6 per cent, 12.9 per cent and 10.5 per cent, respectively during 2017, ACI said.Here's the full list of 20
airports that are ranked as the busiest around the globe in 2017:1
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Georgia) - 104 million passengers2
Beijing Capital International Airport (China) - 96 million3
Dubai International Airport (United Arab Emirates) - 88 million4
Haneda International Airport (Tokyo, Japan) - 85 million5
Los Angeles International Airport (California) - 84.6 million6
O'Hare International Airport (Chicago, Illinois) - 80 million7
Heathrow Airport (London, United Kingdom) - 78 million8
Hong Kong International Airport - 73 million9
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (China) - 70 million10
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Netherlands) - 68.5 million12
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (Texas) - 67 million13
Guangzhou Bai Yun International Airport (China) - 66 million14
Frankfurt Am Main Airport (Germany) - 64.5 million15
Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi, India) - 63.5 million17
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Jakarta, Indonesia) - 63 million18
Singapore Changi Airport (Singapore) - 62.22 million19
Incheon International Airport (South Korea) - 62.16 million20
Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) - 61 million(With PTI inputs)
