Major airports hit by widespread hour-long delays
Some of the world’s busiest airports have been hit with average departure delays of over an hour, data from the flight-tracking platform flightradar24 showed.
Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport was experiencing average delays of 75 minutes, with 88% of its flights delayed today. Dozens of flights have been delayed with an average of nearly 50 minutes in both Barcelona and Rome.
Major airports in India, including in the capital city of New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai are topping charts with delays of up to an hour.
At one of the world’s busiest cargo hubs, Memphis International Airport in Tennessee, 97% flights have been delayed with average delay of an hour.