While India new airports at Bangalore (BLR) and Hyderabad (HYD) are quite modern and efficient, there are are still air traffic challenges in the skies and are exacerbated severely by the winter fog in Delhi and other parts of northern India.
Its two busiest airports, the Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi (DEL) and the Chatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai (BOM) are at the top of Forbes Magazine’s list of the the “World’s most delayed airports“. Both airports have had seen new construction at the terminals recent years, but runways are still limited. Forbes also ranked Chennai (MAA) in south India among the word’s most delayed airports: modernization here has just started and it may take quite a while before we see improvements. Forbes used data from FlightStats to compile its annual list. Delhi and Mumbai were near the top in last year’s list as well.
Beijing International (PEK) was on the list as well and so were five American airports: Newark (EWR), New York La Guardia (LGA), Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), Miami (MIA) and LA-Ontario (ONT).
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
