Indira Gandhi International Airport serves Delhi (IATA code: DEL). With 78.1 million passengers in 2025, DEL was comfortably India’s busiest airport last year. Approximately 72% of the traffic was international, while 28% was domestic. Compared to 2024, growth was less than half a percentage point.This was partly because one of its runways was out of […]
July 1, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Rome Fiumicino kicks off the summer 2026 season after a record-breaking year, continuing its consistent trajectory of growth focused on quality. In 2025, the airport exceeded the 50 million passenger threshold for the first time, handling 51.3 million travellers, representing a +18% increase versus 2019 (+7.8 million passengers) and +4% compared to 2024. Point-to-point traffic […]
May 17, 2026 | Air Service Event News
Air India introduced flights between Delhi and Rome FCO on Wednesday 25 March. The 5,945-kilometre service will operate 4-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with the 787-8 aircraft. It will complement ITA Airways, which will soon become a fellow Star Alliance member and runs daily flights on the route. Flight AI123 departs Delhi at […]
April 1, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Non-stop capacity between Europe and India is at a record level. According to Cirium schedule information, 12.1 million two-way seats are planned in 2025, up by over 6% from the previous high recorded in 2024. Despite this, more local passengers fly indirectly via Gulf, European or Indian airports than non-stop, while this non-stop capacity is […]
February 8, 2025 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air India commenced a new service between Bengaluru and London LGW on Sunday 18 August. The 8,035-kilometre route will be maintained 5-weekly, each day of the week except for Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the 256-seat 787-8 aircraft. The carrier faces no direct competition on the route, however, both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic maintain flights […]
August 26, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Over 10 million people flew between Europe and India last year – about 27,000 daily. Sixth-freedom carriers were critical: about seven in ten passengers transferred to another flight en route. Many people connected in the Middle East, and Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways were the three largest sixth-freedom operators. In fourth place was Air India, […]
July 11, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air India inaugurated flights between Delhi and Zurich on Sunday 16 June. The 6,160-kilometre route will be maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays with the 256-seat 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. The service is complemented by a daily rotation operated by Air India’s Star Alliance partner SWISS. Flight AI151 departs Delhi at 14:05 local time, […]
June 24, 2024 | Latest Route News +
It was another fairly quiet week for new route launches in Europe and North America. Air Service One identified just 16 new routes across the two regions. These were [date of first flight, weekly frequency]: NyxAir began an Estonian domestic route connecting Tallinn with Kardla [1/3, 12-weekly] using Saab 340s. It replaced Diamond Sky which […]
March 8, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Air India launched flights between Delhi and Amsterdam on Sunday 11 June, marking its return to the Dutch city following a 26-year hiatus. The 6,735-kilometre service will be maintained 4-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, using the 256-seat 787-8 aircraft. The airline will compete directly against KLM’s 6-weekly rotations between the two cities. Flight […]
June 19, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Amsterdam will welcome Air India this summer. It joins other carriers to have launched Amsterdam recently or will do so soon, including PLAY (December 2021) and JetBlue (August 2023). After last serving the Dutch airport 26 years ago, Air India will launch a 4-weekly Delhi-Amsterdam service on 11 June using the Boeing 787-8. It will […]
May 15, 2023 | Air Service Event News
The UK is India’s largest second-largest long-haul market by passenger traffic, behind the US. In 2019, approximately 3.5 million point-to-point passengers flew to/from the UK. While that reduced to around 3.1 million last year, it still had more than 8,000 passengers daily. Invariably, many travelled indirectly, especially through the Middle East to secondary destinations. They […]
April 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
American Airlines has returned to India after a break of nine years. On Friday 12 November the airline began daily service on the 11,780-kilometre route between New York JFK and Delhi using its Boeing 777-300ERs. The inaugural flight (AA 292) departed JFK at 19:27 and arrived at Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport at 20:20 the […]
November 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story