Indian airports world's most-delayed

An extra travel time needs to be budgeted to fly to India from overseas, with Indian airports emerging as the world's most-delayed airports with most frequent late arrivals into the country in 2008, according to US magazine Forbes.

An extra travel time needs to be budgeted to fly to India from overseas, with Indian airports emerging as the world's most-delayed airports with most frequent late arrivals into the country in 2008, according to US magazine Forbes.

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Country's financial hub Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International and national capital's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airports have grabbed the first and second ranks in terms of late arrivals in the world's most-delayed airports list compiled by Forbes.

"India takes the prize as the country with most frequent late arrivals in our second annual tallying of the world's most-delayed airports," Forbes said in its latest report. Topping the list of the world's most-delayed airport for the second year in a row, Mumbai's international airport, saw just 49.95 per cent of on-time arrivals. While about 58 per cent of its late arrivals in 2008 were delayed by 30 minutes or more, the report said.

At New Delhi's IGI airport, the percentage of on-time arrivals is 50.89 per cent in 2008 and had seen 23.3 million passengers in previous year, based on data from FlightStats, which tracks historical and real-time flight information, Forbes said.