MoreTraveling to India and China? Pack your patience. Airports in those countries top our third annual list of The World's Most Delayed Airports.
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport takes the prize for the airport with the least timely arrivals with just 45 percent of its scheduled passenger flights arriving on time. Beijing Capital International Airport has the worst departure record with just 38 percent of commercial passenger flights leaving as scheduled. To gather our information, we relied on FlightStats, a service that tracks historical and real-time flight information around the globe.
I would think that departure delays are more apt to be the fault of the airport in question, though I suppose flights being put into a holding pattern may also account for delayed arrivals.