Airports of India

Key Details
Revised on 16-May-2018

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International Airports

# Airport Location Comments

1. Indira Gandhi International Delhi Indira Gandhi International

Airport Airport, Delhi is the most busiest
Airport in terms of flight traffic in
India.

2. Chhatrapati Shivaji Mumbai,

International Airport Maharashtra
3. Kempegowda International Bangalore,
Airport Karnataka
4. Chennai International Chennai, Also called Annadurai
Airport Tamil Nadu International Airport. It Serves as
the regional headquarters of the
Airports Authority of India for
South India.

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5. Netaji Subhas Chandra Kolkata, It was earlier known as Dum

Bose International Airport West Bengal Dum Airport.

6. Rajiv Gandhi International Hyderabad, It is the Biggest Airport (5,495

Airport Telangana Acres) in terms of Area.

7. Cochin International Airport Kochi, It is the first airport in India

Kerala developed under a public-private
partnership (PPP) model and
world’s first Airport to be
completely run on Solar Power.

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8. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ahmedabad,

International Airport Gujarat

# Airport Location Comments

9. Goa International Airport Goa It was built by Portuguese India.

The Airport is owned by
Government of Goa & Indian
Navy.

10. Pune International Airport Pune, Maharashtra The Airport is owned by Indian
Airforce.

11. Chaudhary Charan Singh Lucknow, It is named after fifth Prime

International Airport Uttar Pradesh Minister of India Chaudhary
Charan Singh.

12. Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram, It is the first international airport

International Airport Kerala in a non-metro city in India.

13. Coimbatore International Coimbatore,

Airport Tamil Nadu
14. Calicut International Airport Calicut,
Kerala
15. Biju Patnaik International Bhubaneswar,
Airport Odisha
16. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Nagpur, This airport is slated to be the
International Airport Maharashtra multimodal international hub
airport, which will reduce the
overload on other busy airports
in India.

17. Sheikhul Aalam Srinagar It has been named after the

International Airport Kashmiri saint Sheikhul Aalam &

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owned by Indian Air Force and

the Airports Authority of India.

# Airport Location Comments

18. Jay Prakash Narayan Patna, Bihar

International Airport

19. Mangaluru Airport Mangalore,

Karnataka
20. Chandigarh International Chandigarh It is operated under Indian Air
Airport Force & Airports Authority of
India

21. Lal Bahadur Shastri Varanasi,

International Airport Uttar Pradesh
22. Veer Savarkar International Port Blair The Airport is named after the
Airport Indian freedom fighter Vinayak
Damodar Savarkar

23. Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee Amritsar It is named after Guru Ram Das,
International Airport the fourth Sikh Guru.

24. Tiruchirappalli International Tiruchirappalli, The airport was established by

Airport Tamil Nadu the British during World War II
and was primarily used by the
British Air force.

25. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Guwahati, It also known as Guwahati

International Airport
Assam International Airport named after
Gopinath Bordoloi who was a
freedom fighter and also the first
chief minister of Assam after
independence.

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26. Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam, It is under Indian Navy & Airports

International Airport Andhra Pradesh Authority of India.

Domestic Airports

# State/ Union Territory Airports

1. Andhra Pradesh Cuddapah Airport, Kadapa

Sri Sathya Sai (Pvt) Airport, Puttaparthi
Tirupati Airport, Tirupati
Vijayawada Airport, Vijayawada
(Got International status recently)

2. Arunachal Pradesh Daporijo Airport, Daporijo

Tezu Airport, Tezu

3. Assam Dibrugarh Airport, Dibrugarh

Rupsi Airport, Dhubri

4. Bihar Jogbani Airport, Jogbani

Gaya Airport, Gaya

5. Chhattisgarh Jagdalpur Airport, Jagdalpur

Swami Vivekananda Airport, Raipur

6. Daman and Diu Diu Airport, Diu

7. Gujarat Vadodara Airport, Vadodara

Kandla Airport, Kandla
Bhavnagar Airport, Bhavnagar
Keshod Airport, Keshod
Porbandar Airport, Porbandar
Rajkot Airport, Rajkot
Surat Airport, Surat

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8. Himachal Pradesh Gaggal Airport, Kangra

# State/ Union Territory Airports

8. Himachal Pradesh Shimla Airport, Shimla

Bhuntar Airport, Kullu

9. Jammu & Kashmir Jammu Airport, Jammu

10. Jharkhand Birsa Munda Airport, Ranchi

Dhanbad Airport, Dhanbad

Sonari Airport, Jamshedpur

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11. Karnataka Belgaum Airport, Belgaum

Hubli Airport, Hubli

Mysore Airport, Mysore

Vidyanagar Airport, Toranagallu

12. Madhya Pradesh Gwalior Airport, Gwalior

Jabalpur Airport, Jabalpur

Khajuraho Airport, Khajuraho

Khandwa Airport, Khandwa

13. Maharashtra Khandwa Airport, Khandwa

Akola Airport, Akola

Aurangabad Airport, Aurangabad

Jalgaon Airport, Jalgaon

Kolhapur Airport, Kolhapur

Nanded Airport, Nanded

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Gandhinagar Airport, Nashik

Solapur Airport, Solapur

14. Odisha Jharsuguda Airport, Jharsuguda

# State/ Union Territory Airports

15. Tamil Nadu Madurai Airport, Madurai

Salem Airport, Salem

Tuticorin Airport, Tuticorin

16. Tripura Agartala Airport, Agartala

17. Uttarakhand Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun

Pantnagar Airport, Pantnagar

18. West Bengal Balurghat Airport, Balurghat

Cooch Behar Airport, Cooch Behar

Key Notes:

The Present Minister of Civil Aviation is Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation of Government of India is responsible for overseeing airport facilities,
air traffic services and carriage of passengers and goods by air.
Dr.Guruprasd Mohapatra is the Present Chairman of Airports Authority of India(As of
September,2017).
Singapore Changi Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport by air travellers at the 2017
World Airport Awards for the fifth year in a row.
Juhu Aerodrome (1928), located in Juhu,a suburb in Mumbai, was India's first civil aviation airport.
J R D Tata, the father of Indian civil aviation. He is the India’s first licensed pilot in 1929 and JRD
flew 1st aircraft carrying mail from Karachi to Bombay (present-day Mumbai) and then continuing
on to Madras (present-day Chennai).
J R D Tata started India’s first commercial airline "Tata Airlines" in 1932. After World War II, it
became a public limited company and was renamed as Air India.

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Airports Authority of India comes under Mini Ratna category list.

IndiGo Airlines has a share of more than 27 percent and ranked at the first position in India. The
Present CEO IndiGo Airlines is Rahul Bhatia.
UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) is a regional airport development and "Regional Connectivity
Scheme (RCS)" of the Government of India for low-cost, regional connectivity.

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