Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi is the busiest
airports in India in terms of passenger traffic. In 2015, it had handled total
45.98 million passengers and out of which 13.88 million passengers used
international flights to and from Delhi. As per the DGCA data for international
city-pair passengers released in mid February, the following is the list of top
10 busiest international route from Delhi Airport with annual passengers data
on respective routes. Interestingly, 5 out of top 10 routes are eastward from
Delhi while the other 5 is in westward direction. Three Gulf/West Asian
airports, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha are featured in the top 10 list while only
two long-haul European destinations London and Frankfurt are in the list. At
816 km from Delhi, Kathmandu is the nearest destination among the top 10 while
Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore are the three Southeast Asian destinations
in the top 10 list. Hong Kong is the only East Asian destination to be featured
in the list.
