{"id":20256,"date":"2022-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=20256"},"modified":"2022-05-03T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T05:07:48","slug":"delhi-airport-is-now-worlds-second-busiest-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/03\/delhi-airport-is-now-worlds-second-busiest-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi airport is now world&#8217;s second busiest airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>According to a recent survey by Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data source, the Delhi airport was the world&#8217;s second busiest airport in terms of domestic and international flights handled in March.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/integrated-aggarwal-passengers-terminal-welcome-commercial-wednesday_d61188e4-0a04-11e6-afce-cd590874c67e.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/integrated-aggarwal-passengers-terminal-welcome-commercial-wednesday_d61188e4-0a04-11e6-afce-cd590874c67e.webp 640w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/integrated-aggarwal-passengers-terminal-welcome-commercial-wednesday_d61188e4-0a04-11e6-afce-cd590874c67e-600x450.webp 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/integrated-aggarwal-passengers-terminal-welcome-commercial-wednesday_d61188e4-0a04-11e6-afce-cd590874c67e-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>&#8220;While Atlanta remains the largest city, Dubai is knocked out of second place this month (March) by Delhi, which rises from third place last month (February)&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>according to the OAG&#8217;s report<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Delhi airport was ranked 23rd in March 2019 before the outbreak, according to the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Airports in Atlanta, Georgia, Delhi, India, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates handled 4.42 million, 3.61 million, and 3.55 million passengers, respectively, in March of this year, according to the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>&#8220;The COVID-19 pandemic had wreaked havoc around the globe. For the past two years, travel restrictions have had a negative impact on the travel and tourist industries&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, CEO of Delhi Airport International Limited (DIAL), said in a statement<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as the number of people who have been vaccinated increases around the world, governments are loosening travel restrictions and gradually opening their borders, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;India opened its borders last month, allowing fully vaccinated international travellers to enter the country,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1128420-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1128420-airport.jpg 696w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1128420-airport-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1128420-airport-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to him, these actions have benefited the travel and tourist business and given a much-needed boost to air travel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent survey by Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data source, the Delhi airport was the world&#8217;s second busiest airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[79,2893,4158,81,80,5842,5397],"class_list":{"0":"post-20256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-delhi-international-airport","10":"tag-igi-airport","11":"tag-latest-aviation-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-second","14":"tag-worlds-busiest-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20260,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions\/20260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}