Delhi's IGI Airport most punctual among top 20 global airports: OAG report

The Delhi airport beat much bigger rivals like Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and so on.

NEW DELHI: Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport emerged as the most punctual airport among the top 20 airports in the world in August 2018.

The Delhi airport has beaten much bigger rivals like Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Illinois (USA), Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Georgia (USA) and Haneda International Airport, Tokyo to clinch the first position in on-time performance in August 2018.

Accessed exclusively by Zeenews.com, the report has been published by OAG Punctuality League – a UK-based air travel intelligence firm. “On-Time is percentage of flights that depart or arrive within 15 minutes of schedule,” explained OAG Punctuality League.

A total of 19,748 planes took off from IGI Airport this August, with a departure rate of 82.9 per cent and a cancellation percentage of just 0.3.

Chicago O'Hare International Airport emerged on the top of the list of the big airports with the maximum departures at 39.733 flights but with an on-time performance of just 71.6 per cent, followed by Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International (38.830 departures and on-time performance of 79.5 per cent) and Los Angeles International Airport (29,078 and on-time performance of 78.3 per cent).

Other large Indian airports ranked poorly in the OAG report, with just three more making it to the top 100 list.

Mumbai Airport ranked at number 50 in the list with a flight traffic of 13,516 and 77 per cent departure rate. Bengaluru Airport emerged at number 78 with 9,936 flights and 86.2% departure rate. 

Top 30 Airports with Best Global On-time performance

		On-time Performance
	Airport	Departures	Rank	Cancel %	No. flights	Rank
ORD	Chicago O'Hare International Apt,Chicago,IL	71.6%	795	2.3%	39,733	1
ATL	Atlanta Hartsfield-jackson Intl Apt,Atlanta,GA	79.5%	516	0.4%	38,830	2
LAX	Los Angeles International Apt,Los Angeles,CA	78.3%	573	0.8%	29,078	3
DFW	Dallas/Fort Worth Intl Apt,Dallas,TX	75.0%	708	1.6%	28,754	4
DEN	Denver Intl Apt,Denver,CO	76.2%	668	0.8%	26,022	5
PEK	Beijing Capital Intl Apt,Beijing,China	66.9%	918	2.4%	25,791	6
CLT	Charlotte,Charlotte,NC	74.6%	725	1.7%	22,802	7
FRA	Frankfurt International Apt,Frankfurt,Germany	64.0%	978	1.7%	22,164	8
HND	Tokyo Intl (Haneda),Tokyo,Japan	80.7%	461	1.8%	21,699	9
CGK	Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Apt,Jakarta,Indonesia	55.9%	1085	1.4%	21,364	10
AMS	Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Netherlands	70.0%	851	0.9%	21,239	11
LHR	London Heathrow Apt,London (GB),United Kingdom	70.4%	840	0.6%	21,057	12
YYZ	Toronto Lester B Pearson Intl,Toronto,Canada	66.1%	933	3.2%	20,970	13
CDG	Paris Charles de Gaulle Apt,Paris,France	53.9%	1100	0.6%	20,771	14
JFK	New York J F Kennedy International Apt,New York,NY	70.4%	837	3.6%	20,415	15
SEA	Seattle-Tacoma International Apt,Seattle,WA	71.9%	789	1.0%	20,116	16
SFO	San Francisco,San Francisco,CA	69.2%	875	1.9%	20,006	17
PVG	Shanghai Pudong International Apt,Shanghai,China	62.6%	996	6.1%	20,001	18
CAN	Guangzhou,Guangzhou,China	64.4%	971	2.5%	19,925	19
DEL	Delhi,Delhi,India	82.9%	348	0.3%	19,748	20
IST	Istanbul Ataturk Airport,Istanbul,TurkeyI	72.1%	785	0.2%	19,560	21
IAH	Houston George Bush Intercont.,Houston,TX	80.7%	463	0.6%	19,017	22
BOS	Boston Edward L Logan Intl Apt,Boston,MA	71.1%	811	3.0%	18,776	23
EWR	Newark Liberty International Apt,New York,NY	63.7%	983	5.8%	18,678	24
MEX	Mexico City Juarez Intl,Mexico City,Mexico	85.6%	220	0.2%	17,855	25
DXB	Dubai International,Dubai,United Arab Emirates	48.5%	1148	0.4%	17,441	26
MSP	Minneapolis/St Paul International Apt,Minneapolis/St Paul,MN	82.9%	352	0.5%	17,263	27
MUC	Munich International Airport,Munich,Germany	62.0%	1004	1.5%	17,160	28
DTW	Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County,Detroit,MI	80.8%	453	0.8%	17,159	29
MAD	Madrid Adolfo Suarez-Barajas Apt,Madrid,Spain	77.3%	620	0.4%	16,833	30

The IGI Airport, which handles more than 40 million passengers each year, is managed by Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL). It is currently the seventh busiest airports in Asia and among the top 20 busiest airports in the world.

The Delhi airport recently bagged the Best Airport Award to handle over 40 million passengers per annum (MPPA) by the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards 2017.