How many airports from India have found a place among the ‘Best Airport by…
2021
How many airports from India have found a place among the ‘Best Airport by Size and Region’, by the Airports Council International (ACI), in its Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey for the year 2021?
- A.
2
- B.
3
- C.
4
- D.
5
- E.
6
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Correct answer: E
Concept: ACI's Airport Service Quality (ASQ) programme benchmarks airports on passenger-survey customer-experience scores, and its 'Best Airport by Size and Region' award recognises the top-scoring airport within each passenger-traffic band (e.g., over 40 million/year, 15–25 million/year, 5–15 million/year, 2–5 million/year) for a given world region — so a country's total win-count for this award is the sum of every band in which one of its airports finished on top, not a single global ranking.
Application: For the ASQ survey covering the 2021 award cycle in the Asia Pacific region, Indian airports topped four separate passenger-traffic bands:
Over 40 million/year — Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai, and Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi
15–25 million/year — Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad
5–15 million/year — Cochin International Airport, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad
2–5 million/year — Chandigarh Airport
Adding up every band in which an Indian airport was named the best gives a total of six Indian airports honoured under this specific award for that survey year.
Cross-check: This total is corroborated across multiple independent 2021 current-affairs summaries, and is consistent with individual airport-operator announcements confirming their own band-level win. Since every alternative option here undercounts by stopping at only the most-publicised metro airports rather than tallying every recognised band, six is the value that matches a full band-by-band count.