India’s decision to allow full international flight services from April is already showing results, with the UAE-India sector shooting up the charts to be among the world’s busiest. The Dubai-Mumbai services is currently the world’s fifth busiest with more than 218,000 seats as flight capacity, while Dubai-Delhi is at ninth spot with 179,000 seats plus.
“This is natural given the huge number of flights that Emirates airline and flydubai have to and from India with onward connections, which gives Indians an opportunity to travel after facing restrictions the last two years,” said aviation industry analyst Ashwini Phadnis.
The Cairo-Jeddah route is at the top in the April rankings put out by the aviation consultancy OAG. With 334,157 seats. And followed closely by London Heathrow to New York’s JFK with 273,596 eats.
The Dubai to Riyadh services. Which had been the world’s busiest for March, dropped to seventh spot. This sector could regain some of the numbers shortly with the Eid break coming up early May.