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Country's financial hub Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International and national capital's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airports have grabbed the first and second ranks in terms of late arrivals in the world's most-delayed airports list compiled by Forbes.
"India takes the prize as the country with most frequent late arrivals in our second annual tallying of the world's most-delayed airports," Forbes said in its latest report.
Topping the list of the world's most-delayed airport for the second year in a row, Mumbai's international airport saw just 49.95 per cent of on-time arrivals. While about 58 per cent of its late arrivals in 2008 were delayed by 30 minutes or more, the report said.
At New Delhi's IGI airport, the percentage of on-time arrivals is 50.89 per cent in 2008 and had seen 23.3 million passengers in previous year, based on data from FlightStats, which tracks historical and real-time flight information, Forbes said.
The report stated that India was a peculiar case as its biggest airports have undertaken massive construction projects to cope with the country's rapid growth.
The most-delayed airport, Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International, opened a new taxiway in November to reduce the wait time for landing aircraft, while New Delhi's IGI Airport fully opened a third runway in October.
Bengaluru International has been ranked at the fourth place in top five in the list with on-time arrivals of 60.16 per cent.
Quoting a spokesperson of Bengaluru International Airport, Forbes said that delayed arrivals in India were largely attributed to air congestion at a flight's origin.
"There (Bengaluru International), 80 per cent of departures were on time in 2008, yet just 60 per cent of flights arrived as scheduled," the spokesperson told Forbes. The difference between the departures and arrivals is because the faster runway exits and improved efficiency at the new airport give a boost to the percentage of flights departing on time.
Further, high on the Forbes list of airports with the lowest percentage of on-time arrivals are – Casablanca's Mohammed V International Airport (54 per cent on time), Orio al Serio Airport near Bergamo, Italy (61 per cent), New York LaGuardia (62 per cent), Birmingham Airport in England (63 per cent) and London's Luton and Heathrow Airports (both 63 per cent on time).
Besides, a host of European airports are among those on top of the list with delayed departures, they include – Manchester Airport in northern England (49 per cent on time), Venice's Marco Polo International (54 per cent), Rome's Fiumicino International (58 per cent), Athens International (61 per cent) and Paris' Charles DeGaulle International (62 per cent on-time).
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THAT'S ALL YOU COULD NOTICE OF INDIA, THE GREAT PAKISTANI ?? NO PAKISTANI EVER DESCRIBE HIMSELF AS GREAT PAKISTANI, BASICALLY BECAUSE, PAKISTANIS ARE AN UNWELCOME LOT TO THE WORLD. HOW DARE YOU HAVE SHOWN TO STATE YOURSELF AS "GREAT PAKISTANI". SINCE THERE ARE NONE IN THAT CATEGORY IN YOUR COUNTRY, WE CONSIDER IT AS HAPPENED DUE TO YOUR IGNORANCE. A COUNTRY WHICH FEEDS FOR AND NURTURE AND DO BUSINESS WITH TERRORISM, A COUNTRY DOING WHOLESALE BUSINESS OF NARCOTICS, A COUNTRY WHICH HAS NO RULERS BUT GHOSTS OF TERRORISM DOMINATES, HOW COME THERE EXISTS ANY "GREAT PAKISTANI"? DO NOT EVER COMPARE INDIA WITH THAT LAND OF TREACHERS AND MERCHANTS OF CRIMES.
When ever a change is brought about the employees strike. The reason for the strike is well known. Employees fear more work. Blame the employees who demand perks without any accoutability to performance. I am not surprised by this dubious distinction we won. Most delayed in the world!!For solving the issues and to improve you dont need nobel laurets. Just look at Singapore Changi airport to learn and then look at our air sheds (not air ports) and admit yeah we got a problem and need to change. Accept the miserable condition and then say we need to hand over a better reputation to the next generation of Indians. Other countries improved bit by bit through hard work and continuous improvements. In India the clerk decides the pace of change.
Congratulations to Mr. Praful Patel. Outstanding performance. No action is required. Just ask voters to re-elect you, Sir because not very many fly anyways. Great work of 8% growth....ha ha ha PM Manmohan Singh..Look at China and their airports, expansions and management. Please accept my hearty congratulations for outstanding performance Mr PM and Godmother Sonia deviji.
The biggest mistake of GOI was to nationalise Air India and take it away from the Tatas. That is when things began to slide downwards. Land on both the East and West of the main runway is encroached upon by slums. There is a dire need for the Intl. airport to be expanded with more bays and better longer runways. I travel often from San Francisco. The new Intl. San Francisco airport in something Mumbai should look at. But nothing can be achieved without political will to improve the city's image.
Not only the most delayed, but it is the dirtiest, filthiest airport in whole world.
Forbes had finally published what we as passengers already knew and often complained about. Great ! I hope one day they publish something about the public transport from the Indian airport to down town and about these touts hanging around the Indian airports..
In addition to the airport s add ÁIR INDIA as the worlds lousiest airline. I have yet to ever see an Air India flight arriving or taking off on time. I would love to be proved wrong by fellow readers.
Is there anything that runs on time in India? Utter inefficiency and lack of professionalism.
Why not give it to Satyam ,Wipro or MegaSoft :)Is we have any sort of Government here in India.Only 10 People come and make carnage in our most secure areas we do nothing.We have our biggest IT firm found as a cheater and we do nothing.Now this is report of our Aviation.This is the same story as there was a BJP shining India campaigning 5 years ago but what real is just hunger and poor peoples.Let see what real truth about us we got to know in near future.
Wow what perfection.Even Pakistan have 85 to 90 percent of on-time rate.
Who wants to be thre longer. Before any bullt hit or bomb burst every one wnat to get out as quickly as possible. Any way with one or two plane no one whant to miss the flight. We are talikng here about very busy air ports not desert.
Indian airports are underdesigned for this traffic. If you have only 2-3 planes as in Pakistan, it is possible to have 85-90% on-time rate. They have to be on-time in Pakistan anyway or you cant fly them into twin towers, etc.
That's because no one wants to fly to Pakistan and apart from PIA had been banned from flying to the EU...safety reasons
freaking 2 flights land in pakistan all day and 5 take off ...big deal they are on time ...hahahaha
Nothing new is there? with so many minister traveling by air we poor pasanger have to be delay Give airport and air india magment to TATA and hopefully everything will improve like before we use to time our watch with air india dep. and arr. when TATA was manageing it