Delhi Airport is one of the world's largest employers: NCAER study

April 22, 2012

New Delhi, April 22: Delhi airport is one of the biggest employers in the world providing jobs to more than five lakh people, a study by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has found.

"The airport provides direct employment to about 5.16 lakh people, 18 per cent more than next best Hartsfield- Jackson Atlanta International airport in the US.

"The employment at Delhi airport is 0.11 per cent of national employment and 8.47 per cent of jobs in the state," said the first of its kind study in India to assess the impact of IGI Airport on employment and economic development of Delhi and the country.

If indirect jobs generated due to the operationalisation of Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport were added, the total employment comes to 15.77 lakh which is 0.34 per cent of national employment and 25.9 per cent of Delhi's jobs, the study found.

The Indira Gandhi International airport has been developed and run by GMR-led consortium, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL).

The think tank compared IGI airport with 11 other international airports in the world where similar studies have been carried out over the years.

Besides Atlanta, other airports considered in the study include Bradley, Budapest, Sydney, Hong Kong, Kansas, New York State, Virginia, Miami, Dubai and Detroit.

Five of these airports had provided employment to less than a lakh people while the rest had a contribution of less than four lakh to employment, the NCAER study found.

During construction of Terminal 3 (T3) of Delhi airport, about 6.14 lakh people got the direct and indirect jobs.

In terms of percentage, it is 0.131 per cent of national employment and 10.08 per cent of annual employment in Delhi.

The employment generation due to construction activities is a one time effect unlike the employment effect of airport services which are recurring in nature, the study said.

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Chaos continues as IndiGo cancels more flights including 73 from Bengaluru airport

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December 4,2025

Domestic carrier IndiGo has cancelled over 180 flights from three major airports — Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru — on Thursday, December 4, as the airline struggles to secure the required crew to operate its flights in the wake of new flight-duty and rest-period norms for pilots.

While the number of cancellations at Mumbai airport stands at 86 (41 arrivals and 45 departures) for the day, at Bengaluru, 73 flights have been cancelled, including 41 arrivals, according to a PTI report that quoted sources.

"IndiGo cancelled over 180 flights on Thursday at three airports-Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru," the source told the news agency.

Besides, it had cancelled as many as 33 flights at Delhi airport for Thursday, the source said, adding, "The number of cancellations is expected to be higher by the end of the day."

The Gurugram-based airline's On-Time Performance (OTP) nosedived to 19.7 per cent at six key airports — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad — on December 3, as it struggled to get the required crew to operate its services, down from almost half of December 2, when it was 35 per cent.

"IndiGo has been facing acute crew shortage since the implementation of the second phase of the FDTL (Flight Duty Time Limitations) norms, leading to cancellations and huge delays in its operations across the airports," a source had told PTI on Wednesday.

Chaos continued at several major airports for the third day on Thursday because of the cancellations.

A spokesperson for the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru said that 73 IndiGo flights had been cancelled on Thursday.

At least 150 flights were cancelled and dozens of others delayed on Wednesday, airport sources said, leaving thousands of travellers stranded, according to news agency Reuters.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said it is investigating IndiGo flight disruptions and has asked the airline to submit the reasons for the current situation, as well as its plans to reduce flight cancellations and delays.

It may be mentioned here that the pilots' body, Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, "inexplicably" adopted a "hiring freeze".

The FIP said it has urged the safety regulator, the DGCA, not to approve airlines' seasonal flight schedules unless they have adequate staff to operate their services "safely and reliably" in accordance with the New Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms.

In a letter to the DGCA late on Wednesday, the FIP urged the DGCA to consider re-evaluating and reallocating slots to other airlines, which have the capacity to operate them without disruption during the peak holiday and fog season if IndiGo continues to "fail in delivering on its commitments to passengers due to its own avoidable staffing shortages."

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