New world record: Mumbai airport raises own bar with 1,003 flights a day

Record is for single-runway airports across globe, betters 988 flights a day, also at Mumbai; 1,000-plus comes on spillover from previous day due to thunderstorm

Mumbai airport, the busiest single-runway airport in the world, broke its own record when it handled 1003 flights on Tuesday. The previous record for highest number of flights in twenty-four hours period was 988 a few months ago, a Mumbai International Airport Limited spokesperson said.

The 1000-plus movement number was breached on Tuesday as thunderstorm previous evening led to a large number of delays and disruptions. These delayed flights landed and took off past midnight on Monday, adding to Tuesday's data.

Though Mumbai has two intersecting runways, only one of them is in operation at a time. The airport's main