Indira Gandhi International Airport serves as the primary civilian aviation hub for the
National Capital Region of
Delhi,
India. The airport, spread over an area of , is situated in
Palam, south-west of the
New Delhi railway station and from New Delhi city centre. Named after
Indira Gandhi, a former
Prime Minister of India, it is the busiest airport in the country in terms of
passenger traffic since 2009. It is the second busiest airport in the country in terms of cargo traffic after
Mumbai. With the commencement of operations at Terminal 3 in 2010, it became India's and South Asia's largest aviation hub, with a current capacity of handling more than 40 million passengers. The planned expansion program will increase the airport's capacity to handle 100 million passengers by 2030. In 2014, the airport handled a total of 39.752 million passengers, registering a 8.4% growth in traffic over the previous year and became the
12th busiest airports in Asia. As of 2015, the airport currently is the
26th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic.