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From Forbes:

If you flew to Mumbai or Delhi last year, more often than not your plane did not arrive on time. The international airports in those cities were the world’s worst for timely arrivals.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Mumbai International (BOM)

Worst Arrival Rank: No. 1

India’s busiest airport in terms of passengers (21.4 million in 2006) is also the world’s worst for on-time arrivals. Last year, slightly more than 44% of its flights arrived as scheduled, with an average delay of 45 minutes. Departures from Mumbai were much more reliable, with 72% leaving on time.

Delhi Indira Gandhi International (DEL) is at No. 2

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And below, in the Hindu, an airline instructor pilot, Captain A. Ranganathan, on the sad state of India’s aviation infrastructure:

Better safe than sorry

[View from the cockpit: While runway 19R in Kolkata was cleared for landing, the pilot landed the aircraft on 19L]

After May 2007, we have had more than nine runway overruns and four cases of runway confusions in India. The numbers point to an alarming 30 per cent of overruns and a more alarming single year (four wrong runway landings) equivalent of a 12-year average (four) in runway confusion in worldwide statistics. These are serious warning pointers that have appeared and we continue to ignore them. Three holes are aligned and we wait for the fourth to synchronise! Two events in the recent past are perfect examples. A private airline’s flight landing on the wrong runway which was closed at Kolkata and the stressed Air Traffic Controller at Chennai telling an Air Force pilot to shut up.

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