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 Important points about Airport Authority of India
International Airports in India and domestic airports in India are administered by Airport

Authority of India (AAI).

Airport Authority of India (AAI) is controlled by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

AAI is responsible for managing, upgrading and maintaining the civil aviation

infrastructure in India.

AAI provides service of Air Traffic Management in Indian airspace locations.

Airport Authority of India not only controlling the International and domestic airports it

also controls the Customs airports and Civil enclaves at military bases.

Suresh Prabhu is the Minister of Civil Aviation in India.

Key people of Airport Authority of India:

Chairman of AAI – Guruprasad Mohapatra

Director General of Civil Aviation – BS Bhullar

Joint Secretary – Arun Kumar

Important points about International Airports in India:

In India, there are 24 International Airports in India.

International Airports in India provides commercial service between two countries.

International Airports in India having more facilities compared to domestic airport.

Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) is the largest International Airports in India

constructed in 5,495 acres.

IGI is the busiest airport in India.

Half of the Air traffic in India has been taken by the Indira Gandhi International Airport

and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

Maharashtra state having a large number of airport compared to other states.

Maharashtra having 9 operational airports in India.

Kerala and Tamil Nadu are the only states having 3 International Airports in India.

Cochin International Airport is India’s 1 airport developed under Public Private

Partnership (PPP) model.

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Juhu Aerodrome is the first airport in India founded in 1928 at Mumbai. It is India’s

oldest airport.

Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, Ladakh is the most beautiful airport in India. It is one

of the highest Commercial airports in the world at 3,256m.

Lengpui Airport, Mizoram is India’s smallest airport.

State City Airport Name

Andaman and Nicobar

Port Blair Veer Savarkar International Airport
Islands

Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam International Airport

Andhra Pradesh Tirupathi Tirupathi Airport

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International

Assam Guwahati
Airport

Bihar Gaya Gaya International Airport

Jay Prakash Narayan International

Bihar Patna
Airport

Delhi New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport

Goa International Airport/Dabolim

Goa Goa/td
Airport

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International

Gujarat Ahmedabad
Airport

Gujarat Dholera Dholera International Airport

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Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar Srinagar Airport

Karnataka Bengaluru Kempegowda International Airport

Karnataka Mangalore Mangalore International Airport

Kerala Kochi Cochin International Airport

Kerala Kozhikode Calicut International Airport

Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Trivandrum International Airport

Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International

Madhya Pradesh Indore
Airport

Maharashtra Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International

Maharashtra Nagpur
Airport

Maharashtra Pune Pune Airport

Manipur Imphal Imphal International Airport

Odisha Bhubaneswar Biju Patnaik International Airport

Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International

Punjab Amritsar
Airport

Punjab Chandigarh Chandigarh International Airport

Rajasthan Jaipur Jaipur International Airport

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Tamil Nadu Chennai Anna International Airport

Tamil Nadu Coimbatore Coimbatore International Airport

Tamil Nadu Madurai Madurai Airport

Tamil Nadu Tiruchirapalli Tiruchirapalli International Airport

Telangana Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

Chaudhary Charan Singh International

Uttar Pradesh Lucknow
Airport

Uttar Pradesh Varanasi Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

West Bengal Kolkata
International Airport