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India boasts of a well-developed air travel network.

In a vast country like India air-travel is the swiftest


mode of transportation to reach from one end to another. There is good air connection to nearly all corners
of India.

Almost all the states have one or more airports, which are regularly serviced by several airlines. There are a
number of international airports, which also serve as domestic airport too. Others are only domestic
airports.

Number of full-fledged Airports in India total up to nearly 92, out of which 12 are international airports.
Most of the airports are equipped with state of the art facilities. There are good arrangements for signaling,
landing, waiting lounge etc. many of the airports are going under modernization very soon.

Here is the list of international airports in India:

 Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi  Chennai International Airport Chennai
 Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport  Hyderabad Airport Hyderabad, Andhra
Mumbai, Maharashtra Pradesh
 Bangalore International Airport Bangalore,  Goa Airport Vasco Da Gama, Goa
Karnataka  Amritsar International Airport Amritsar,
 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Punjab
Airport Kolkata, West Bengal  Cochin International Airport Cochin,
 Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Kerala
Airport Guwahati, Assam  Trivandrum International Airport
 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Ahmedabad, Gujarat

A large number of international airlines including the Government owned airlines like Air India & Indian
Airlines connect India from major foreign countries to India. Of late Jet Airways & Air Sahara has started
international operation to destinations like Singapore, London, New York.

An extensive network of nearly 80 domestic airports (a few of them are not operational at the moment)
connects the major cities in India. Air travel is the most convenient way to cover a large country like India.

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