Planes of Air India and IndiGo landing on the runway of Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Indira Gandhi International Airport is the primary international airport of the National Capital Region of Delhi, India, situated in Palam. It is situated 15 km south-west of the New Delhi railway station and 16 km from the New Delhi city centre. Named after Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, it is the busiest airport in India. With the commencement of operations at the new Terminal 3, Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport has become India's and South Asia's largest aviation hub, with a current capacity of handling more than 46 million passengers.
IGIA along with Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, and Chennai's Chennai International Airport together handles more than half of the aircraft movements in South Asia. The airport's operator, Delhi International Airport Private Limited (DIAL), is looking to make the airport the next international transit hub.
Spread over an area of 6,300 acres of land, it was previously operated by the Indian Air Force until its management was transferred to the Airports Authority of India in May 2006. A joint venture led by the GMR Group, this joint venture is also has the responsibility for the airport's ongoing expansion and modernisation.
In 2011-12, the airport handled 35.88 million passengers and the planned expansion program will increase its capacity to handle 100 million passengers by 2030.The new Terminal 3 building has had the capacity to handle an additional 34 million passengers annually since the start of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Terminal 3 is the world's 8th largest passenger terminal. In September 2008, the airport inaugurated a 4,430 m (14,530 ft) runway. In 2010, Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) was conferred the fourth best airport award in the world in the 15--25 million category, and Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific Region by Airports Council International. In 2011, the IGIA was ranked the second-best airport in the world in the 25-40 million passengers category, again by Airports Council International.Also in 2011 (the last year that full statistics from ACI are available), the airport was the 34th busiest in the world with 34,729,467 passengers handled, registering a 17.8% growth in traffic over the previous year.
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