An Overview

The government owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) operates 137 airports and civil enclaves out of a total of 449 airports and airstrips located throughout India. Approx. 100 airports/aerodromes handle regular commercial passenger flights. The cities of Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi and Mumbai are served by privately (or joint-venture) operated airports. Airports in India handled over 341 million passengers in 2018. India is the third largest domestic civil aviation market in the world behind the USA and China.

COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an significant impact on the civil aviation sector, nevertheless the domestic segment had seen a major rebound from the second half of '20 onwards. The number of passengers carried on domestic flights in India in Sep '20 was approx. a third of the passenger volumes in the corresponding month of 2019. The number of passengers carried during the pandemic was on a recovery path as the government had granted permission for a larger number of flights to operate (such flight restrictions were removed in Oct '21). As an example, 245 000 passengers were carried on 2 281 flights on 25 Mar which corresponded to ca 65 % of pre-pandemic domestic air passenger volumes in Mar 2019. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (see COVID-19 report) which began in India in March '21 has had an adverse effect on domestic air services. Daily passenger volumes in 2021 had recovered significantly from daily figures of 80 000 or so in early May '21 to 165 000 in mid-July '21 and approx. 400 000 passengers (2 907 flights) carried daily in Jan '23.

International commercial and scheduled airline passenger services (both foreign and Indian) resumed on Mar 27 '22.

Mumbai CSMI Airport - Terminal 2 (Domestic)

Mumbai CSMI Airport (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport) has two terminal complexes of which the newer Terminal 2 handles all international flights. Domestic flights operated by Air India and Vistara are also handled through T2. International and domestic departure concourses are segregated although a common check-in hall is in use. Domestic low-cost carriers operate from the Terminal 1 complex. The huge terminal with its outstanding architecture began operations in early 2014 starting with all international flights. Domestic flights of the three aforementioned airlines were shifted to T2 in 2015/16 in a staggered manner. The terminal floor area extends some 450 000 m² making it the second largest single passenger air terminal in India after Delhi IGI Airport Terminal 3. Mumbai Airport handled 45.9 million passengers in 2019-20 (23rd busiest airport in the world in 2018 by passenger throughput) and has the distinction of being the busiest single runway (active) airport in the world having overtaken London Gatwick. The record number of air movements for a single day was just over 1 000 in 2018. In normal times over 50 airlines from across the world serve the airport on a scheduled basis in addition to almost 20 freighter operators. CSMIA airport handled almost 16.4 m passengers in 2020 ranking it as the 49th busiest airport by passenger throughput.

Cochin International Airport - Terminal 3

Cochin International Airport (CIAL) was opened in 1999 and was the first airport in India developed under a private-public partnership model. The present international terminal T3 with a floor area of 140 000 m² was opened in 2017. CIAL was the fourth busiest airport in India for international traffic handling 4.68 million passengers in 2019-20 (9.62 m passengers incl. domestic). 25 airlines serve the airport. In 2021 the airport handled 4.3 m passengers and 114 aircraft movements on an average per day. In 2015 the airport became the first fully solar-powered airport in the world with a captive 40 MW capacity photovoltaic solar power plant. T3 is brightly lit and spacious and features a large duty-free shop and other retail outlets, an adequate food court and a large departure concourse. The terminal has five aerobridges. Ten Busiest Airports in India (2018)Ten Busiest Airports in India (2017)Ten Busiest Airports in India (2016)

Domestic City Pair Traffic (Passengers Carried): 2017 - Sep 2022

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JetKonnect (Jet Airways) flight video from Mumbai to Kochi

Although JetKonnect (earlier JetLite) was merged with Jet Airways some years ago the airline still uses the original airline code of Air Sahara (S2) which was taken over by Jet Airways in 2007. Air Sahara was one of the first private airlines in India along with ModiLuft, Jet Airways, East-West Airlines and Damania. Jet Airways suspended all operations in Apr '19.
 

Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) handled 37.1 million passengers in 2021 ranking it as the 13th busiest airport in the world.

Privatization and Airport Modernisation

Delhi IGIA ranked as the 13th busiest airport (by passenger volume) in the world in 2021 while Mumbai CSMIA ranked as the 49th busiest airport in 2019 (28th busiest in 2018). Delhi's IGIA and Mumbai's CSMIA airports handled 28.5 m and 16.4 m passengers respectively in 2020 (68.5 m and 47.1 m passengers respectively in 2019).

Delhi IGI Airport

Delhi Airport Terminal 3 - Flight Information Displays

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed an initial 30-year OMDA (Operation, Management and Development Agreement) with GMR-Fraport AG and GVK-ACSA (Airports Company of South Africa) led consortiums for the development and expansion of the airports at Delhi and Mumbai. The Mott MacDonald Group was appointed as the technical advisor for the Delhi airport modernisation project. HOK International was appointed to design the airport. The 480 000 m² integrated terminal 3 with 48 incontact (six of which are designed to accomodate Airbus A380 aircraft) and 30 remote stands at Delhi has a capacity to handle up to 34 million passengers per annum. Terminal 3 was inaugurated in July 2010.

The airport features three runways, incl. a ILS Cat. IIIb runway (11R/29L and 4,430 m long). A fourth runway is expected to be opened in '23. Expansion of the domestic LCC terminal complex (1D/1C) is underway. Construction of the new T1 arrival terminal was completed in Feb '22. Terminal 1 is located in the old Palam (name of Delhi airport till 1986) section of the airport. The terminal is used by SpiceJet and IndiGo. For domestic flights IndiGo operates from T1 (IndiGo flight nos. 6E 101 thru 6E 999 and 6E 6000 thru 6E 7999) , T2 (IndiGo flight nos. 6E 2000 thru 6E 2999) and T3 (6E 5000 thru 6E 5999) - confirm airline websites for latest information. SpiceJet operates all flights from T1 excl. flight nos. SG 8000 thru SG 8999 which operate from T3 as do international flights. Go First operates all domestic flights from T2 (which was refurbished earlier on and is now used by Go First, IndiGo and SpiceJet).
A general aviation terminal, the first of its kind in India, was opened in Sep '20.

Delhi IGI Airport handled on an average 1 228 daily takeoffs and landings handled in Dec 2022.

Delhi airport is expanding the present domestic terminal 1D serving low-cost carriers besides constructing new taxiways, apron expansion and a fourth runway at a total cost of ₹ 98 bn.

 

Mumbai CSMI Airport

Mumbai CSIA Terminal 2 Domestic - Flight Information Displays

Mumbai's Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSIA) features an outstanding integrated terminal with a total floor area of 439 000 m², 38 aerobridges and a capacity to handle 40 m passengers annually is operational. The international section of the terminal began operating in Feb 2014. Air Asia India, Go First, Star Air, Trujet and selected IndiGo flights (IndiGo flight nos. 6E 5200 thru 6E 5399) operate from T1 while the other domestic airlines operate from the terminal 2 complex. The old domestic terminal complex has 11 in-contact gates. The 1C terminal has six aerobridges and a floor area of approx. 27 500 m² and is connected to terminals 1A and 1B through escalators and walkways. The airport set a new world aircraft traffic movement record for a single runway (in effect) airport by handling 1 004 landings and takeoffs during a 24 hr period in Dec '18.

Mumbai CSI airport handled on an average 854 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Kolkata NSCB International Airport (VECC/CCU) - Takeoff and Initial Climb with a view of the new terminal under construction (2010) - Runway 19R - © Timir Mozumder

AAI has planned a total expenditure of ₹ 250 bn up to 2022/23 for airport infrastructure related development projects. This includes the addition of over 270 new aircraft parking bays at various airports.

Patna, Lucknow, Pune, Port Blair, Tiruchirappalli and Guwahati are some of the airports where new passenger terminals under construction.

With the inauguration of the greenfield airport facility at Pakyong (Sikkim) in Sep '18, all the states of India have air connectivity. The Pakyong airfield is located at a height of 1 399 m (among the highest in India) and is capable of handling up to ATR/Q400 turboprop sized aircraft and scheduled air commenced in Oct '18.

A new 3 600 m² passenger terminal was commissioned at Belagavi airport in Sep '17 while the passenger terminal at Jammu airport has been expanded to 14 500 m².

A new passenger terminal has been planned for Patna's Jay Prakash Narayan Airport with a floor area covering 65 000 m² (the present terminal has a floor space of 7 200 m²) and a project cost of ₹ 12 bn. The new terminal will be capable of handling 4.5 m passengers annually. Completion is estimated by end-21.

The construction of a new ₹ 1.7 bn passenger air terminal at Kanpur Chakeri airport is nearing completion. The terminal spans over an area of 6 200 m² and is expected to be inaugurated in Jan '23.

The airport serving Jabalpur will be expanded at a cost of ₹ 4.1 bn including a new domestic passenger terminal with an area of 9 350 m² and three aerobridges. The runway length will be increased to 2 750 m enabling the operation of larger aircraft such as the Airbus A320. The new terminal is expected to be completed by Mar '23.

A new passenger terminal with a floor area of approx. 29 000 m² was commisioned in Oct '21 at Dehra Dun airport (aka Jolly Grant) as part of airport's upgradation work. The airport is seeking an additional 87 hectares of land which unfortunately would have an adverse effect on an elephant corridor in the Shivalik Elephant Reserve with the felling of approx. 10 000 trees.
Hisar airport saw the commencement of regular air taxi operations in Jan '21. The civil aviation operations of Hisar airport incl. a new passenger air terminal of the airport were developed and upgraded at a cost of ₹ 286 mn.

A passenger air terminal is planned for Bihta airport (presently an Indian Air Force base), located west of Patna (Bihar). The terminal is designed to handle up to 5 m passengers per annum and is estimated to cost close to ₹ 10 bn.
A new passenger terminal is planned for the airport located in Darbhanga in north central Bihar. Flight operations at the airport commenced on Nov 8 '20.

A new airport was inaugurated close to the temple town of Shirdi, Maharashtra in Oct '17. The airport was developed at a cost of ₹ 3.5 bn and features a 2 750 m² passenger terminal capable of handling up to 300 pax/hr. Kishangarh airport serving Kishangarh, Ajmer and Pushkar was commissioned in Oct '17.

A new integrated passenger terminal is under construction at Tiruchirappalli Airport which has seen a spurt in passenger traffic in recent years prior to the pandemic. The proposed terminal building costing approx. ₹ 9.5 bn will have a total floor area covering approx. 75 000 m², 10 aerobridges and 48 check-in counters. The new terminal is expected to be completed by Jul '23. The impressive terminal was designed by Pascall+Watson.

Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) airport located in southern Tamil Nadu is being upgraded at a cost ₹ 3.8 bn to cater to growing passenger flows. A 13 500 m² passenger terminal along with an expansion of the apron, ATC block and runway will enable the handling of up to Airbus A321 size aircraft. The upgradation is estimated to be completed by end '23.

A new integrated terminal is under construction at northeast India's busiest airport, Guwahati Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. The total cost of the terminal is approx. ₹ 12 bn and and the building will have a floor area of 102 500 m² which is considerably larger than the existing passenger terminal with a floor area of approx. 20 000 m². The terminal is expected to be completed in 2024.

The constuction of a new passenger terminal building at Agartala Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport (Meghalaya) was completed in Jan '22 with an estimated cost of ₹ 4.4 bn. The terminal has a builtup area of 30 000 m² (second largest in Northeastern India after Guwahati) and features four aerobridges and a designed peak hour capacity of 1 200 passengers (3 m per annum).

Upgradation of facilities, incl. a new passenger air terminal and ATC tower at Tezu airport located in Arunachal Pradesh is underway.

A new terminal costing around ₹4.8 bn is under construction at Pune's Lohegaon airport. The passenger terminal will cover an area of approx. 40 000 m² (almost double the size of the currently in use 22 000 m² terminal) and will feature five aerobridges and almost 3 000 m² of space reserved for food and retail outlets. The terminal is planned to be completed by Aug '23 and the adjacent multi-level car park is expected to be completed shortly thereafter.

A greenfield airport is under construction at a cost of approx. ₹ 5 bn in Sindhudurg district (Maharashtra) at Parule Chipi.

Scheduled passenger airline traffic incl. jet aircraft service commenced in Apr '19 at the upgraded airport located in Jharsuguda, Odisha. A new passenger terminal was inaugurated at Gorakhpur Airport in 2018.

The airstrip at Deogarh, Jharkhand has been modernised at an estimated cost of ₹ 4 bn catering to scheduled jet air service introduced in Jul '22. Spread over 600 acres the airport includes a new 4 000 m² passenger terminal and a runway extended to 2 500 m in length.
The SAIL (Steel Authority of India Ltd.) operated airport at Bokaro (Jharkhand) is readying for scheduled passenger air services once the construction of a new passenger air terminal with associated facilities is completed.

Imphal Int'l Airport, Manipur is set to have a new passenger terminal building with a floor area of 22 000 m² and an annual passenger handling capacity of 2½ million. A new eight stand (code C for Boeing 737 or Airbus A32x equivalent aircraft) apron is also part of the expansion/modernisation plan.

A new integrated passenger terminal is under construction at Vijayawada's Gannavaram airport at an estimated cost of ₹ 6 bn. The terminal will cover a floor area of 35 000 m².

The passenger terminal building at Visakhapatnam Airport is to be expanded to 29 000 m².

The Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy Airport located near Kurnool (AP) was inaugurated in Mar '21.  
A new passenger terminal built at a cost of ₹ 1.6 bn was commissioned at Bamrauli Airport located near Allahabad (Prayagraj) in Dec '18.

A new 19 000 m² passenger terminal is under construction (cost ₹ 5 bn) at Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, among the highest airports in the world situated at an altitude 3 256 m, and serving Leh (Ladakh). The new two million passenger throughput terminal is expected to be completed by end '22.

Commercial passenger airline service operated under the UDAN (Ude Desh ke Aam Nagrik) Regional Connectivity Scheme commenced in Oct '19 at the Hindon Air Force Base located in Ghaziabad (UP). Hindon serves Delhi/ NCR.

Expansion is underway for the present 62 000 m² integrated passenger terminal at Goa Dabolim Airport with the construction of a 18 300 m² extension featuring two additional aerobridges. The expansion has a budgeted cost ₹ 2.5 bn.

The passenger terminal expansion at Surat airport is expected to be completed by end '22. The present passenger terminal, with a built up area of 8 500 m², is being expanded to 25 500 m² in addition to a larger apron area with 23 parking bays. The terminal will feature five aerobridges and 20 check-in counters.

A new 2 500 m² passenger terminal became operational at Bareilly airport (civil enclave at IAF Trishul Air Base) in Mar '21 when commercial passenger air service commenced. The civil enclave apron can accomodate two ATR-72 sized aircraft.

The construction of a new 3 500 m² interim passenger air terminal at Kushinagar Int'l Airport, located in north eastern Uttar Pradesh, has been completed. Commercial flight operations began on Oct 20 '21.

Commercial passenger air services resumed at Bilaspur's Bilasa Devi Kevtin airport, located in Chhattisgarh, in Mar '21.

A slew of  airports are under construction/expansion and readied for commercial passenger services in Uttar Pradesh. These include airports serving Aligarh, Azamgarh, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Muirpur and Shravasti. The airport serving Chitrakoot is a greenfield facility.

The redeveloped Rupsi airport, located in eastern Assam in Kokrajhar district, began catering to commercial airline operations under RCS (Regional Connectivity Scheme) in May '21. The airport features a 3 500 m² passenger air terminal with 10 check-in counters and a capacity to handle a max 200 hourly passengers.

The construction of a new 6 000 m² passenger terminal building has been completed Adampur airport, located close to Jalandhar (Punjab).

Commerical passenger service will be launched in Nov '22 at the new greenfield airport (Donyi Polo Airport) serving Itanagar, the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh. The cost of the airport is estimated at approx. ₹ 6½ billion. The airport will feature a 4 100 m² passenger terminal and a 2 300 m long runway. 

A new passenger terminal is planned to be constructed at Bagdogra Airport located near Siliguri (West Bengal) at an estimated cost of over ₹ 18 bn. The terminal is estimated to be completed in '25.

A new passenger terminal is planned to be constructed at Gwalior Airport at an an estimated cost of ₹ 4½ bn. The new Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Terminal will cover in total ca 20 000 m² which is six times the size of the present passenger terminal building. The terminal will feature four aerobridges and the adjoing apron will have parking capacity for up to nine Airbus A320 and four ATR turboprop sized aircraft.

Green Airports

Vadodara Airport's new integrated 17 500 m² passenger terminal (over double the size of the old domestic terminal) was inaugurated in Oct '16 and is rated as India's second green terminal after Cochin International Airport.

A greenfield airport is under construction in Sogane located near Shivamogga in central Karnataka. The projected cost of the airport is approx. ₹ 4.5 bn. 

Water Aerodromes

Two water aerodromes have been completed at Kevadia, Gujarat (Statue of Unity) on the Narmada River and Sabarmati at Ahmedabad, each costing approx. ₹ 360 m.

Kolkata and Chennai Airports

Kolkata NSCB (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose) international airport was modernised at an approx. cost of ₹ 25 billion. An integral part of the modernisation plan was the construction of a new 195 000 m² integrated passenger terminal with a capacity to handle 20 million passengers a year (Kolkata's two previous terminals were designed to handle 5 m passengers a year). The new RJMM designed terminal was inaugurated in Jan 2013. NSCB airport handled a record 18.9 m passengers in 2017. A metro rail line is under construction which will facilitate rail connectivity from the airport to the existing Kolkata Metro's north-south line at Noapara. Another metro line connecting the airport with Garia is also under construction. Kolkata airport is constrained by land and cannot expand capacitywise that much in the future. Terminal and aircraft parking capacity will be expanded by utilising the old domestic terminal and constructing additional parking stands but the airport does not have sufficient land for a second parallel runway that could be used simultaneously with the present main runway. This by and large limits the number of air movements the airport can handle to a single runway. An extension to the present domestic departure area has been planned once the adjacent old domestic and international terminals have been demolished and a new Haj terminal has been constructed. The planned extension terminal would add 80 000 m² of floor area (domestic) in the first phase of expansion and include 10 additional aerobridges. Eventually the old tower block and old international terminal are also planned for demolition with further extension of the integrated passenger terminal. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the passenger air terminal expansion has been put on hold. A new ATC tower with a height of over 50 m and an adjoining technical block is under construction at a cost of approx. ₹ 4.6 bn.

Kolkata NSCB was formerly known as Dum Dum Airport until 1995 when the airport name was officially changed to NSCB Int'l Airport.

Kolkata NSCB airport handled on an average 385 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Chennai airport's completed modernisation included a new domestic terminal (67 700 m²) and international terminal (59 000 m²) with a total capacity for handling 23 m (7 m international and 16 m domestic) passengers annually. The second phase (work commenced in 2018 at an estimated total cost of ₹ 25 bn) would include the integration of the present domestic and international terminals into one seamless terminal layout with a capacity of 35 m passengers per annum. Terminal floor area will increase to 336 000 m². A new international terminal will replace the present old international and domestic terminals and is estimated to be ready by end-2022. Construction of a new greenfield airport is also under study for Chennai. Chennai airport handled 19.6 m passengers in 2017 and city connectivity improved with the opening of the Chennai Metro Airport station.

Chennai airport handled handled on an average 391 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Other Private Airports

Ahmedabad - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport

As part of AAI's airport privatisation programme, Ahmedabad airport was handed over to the Adani Group on Nov 9 '20 with a 50 year concession agreement which includes the operation, management and development of the airport.
Ahmedabad airport handled on an average 244 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Bengaluru - Kempegowda International Airport

The Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BIAL), located approx. 40 kms north of Bengaluru city at Devanahalli off the NH 7 highway began commercial operations in May 2008. Construction of the estimated ₹ 25 bn airport, spread over an area of over 3,800 acres, began in 2005. Equity shareholders in the airport include Siemen Project Ventures GmbH (26 % stake), Fairfax Financial (48 %), Airports Authority of India (13 %) and the Govt. of Karnataka through KSIIDC (13 %). The rectangular shaped modern integrated terminal has a total floor space of 150 000 m² making it one of India's largest passenger air terminal buildings. The apron can hold up to 42 aircraft at a time, including 15 in-contact stands. Terminal 2, the second integrated passenger air terminal, with a total floor space of 255 000 m² and an annual capacity of 25 million passengers (first phase) began commercial operations in Dec '22 for domestic flights and by the end Q1/23 for international operations. The new terminal (phase 1) has involved a total investment valued at approx. ₹ 50 bn. A new parallel runway was opened in 2019.

A fleet of modern buses provide transport on 11 routes covering all the major points in the city. The Vayu Vajra buses are operated by BMTC (Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation). Dedicated airport taxis also serve passengers. An Oberoi Trident hotel is located near the passenger terminal. Flybus buses depart for Mysuru 12xdaily in addition to a daily service to Mangaluru/Manipal and Kundapur. Besides city bus connections, a suburban train service (seven per weekday/Sat) began operating in Jan '21 connecting the airport with Bengaluru City (KSR Bengaluru), Bengaluru Cantonment and Yelahanka railway stations. The airport halt station (Kempegowda International Airport Halt, code KIAD) is located approx. four km from the airport passenger terminal with a free feeder bus service available from the station. Single journey fares are very reasonably priced starting at only ₹ 30.

Kempegowda Int'l airport handled almost 16.1 million passengers (incl. 940 k international passengers) and 153 212 air traffic movements (ATM) in 2021. 

Bengaluru KIAL handled on an average 655 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Cochin International Airport

Cochin International Airport (CIAL), India's first privately operated airport, handled approx. 188 daily aircraft movements on an average and over 10.2 m passengers in 2017/18 and 2018 respectively. The combined floor area of the two old terminals is ca 54 000 m² while the new international terminal (T3) extends over 140 000 m². The old international terminal was refurbished/converted to handle domestic operations and opened in Dec '18. The domestic terminal features seven aerobridges and 56 check-in counters.
Cochin International Airport handled on an average 166 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Above pics: Cochin International Airport (CIAL) as seen shortly after take off in 2005. A 3400 m long parallel taxiway, not seen in the image, is operational. CIAL handled approx. 10.2 m passengers in 2018 and an average of almost 195 daily aircraft landings and takeoffs in fiscal 2018/19 ranking the airport as India's eight busiest airport. The domestic terminal handled 4.5 million passengers in 2017. 25 airlines served the airport prior to the pandemic.

Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, covering a total area of 5 495 acres at Shamshabad near Hyderabad, began commercial operations in Mar 2008. The cost of the first phase was estimated at ₹ 23 billion. The airport stakeholders include the GMR Group, Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, AAI (Airports Authority of India) and the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. The airport's initial passenger handling capacity is 12 million, which is roughly double the number of passengers handled (6.78 m in 2007) at the old Begumpet Airport.

The integrated and interim domestic arrival and international departure terminals cover a total floor space of over 120 000 m². The interim international departure terminal, covering an area of approx. 10 000 m², was commissioned in Oct '18. An interim domestic arrivals hall covering an area of 4 000 m² with four baggage carousels was commissioned in Mar '19. The passenger terminal is undergoing extensive expansion with expected completion in 2023. The apron includes 42 airplane stands of which 12 are in-contact (aerobridge). The runway is currently South Asia's longest at 4 260 meters. City access by bus is provided by Pushpak Airport Liner buses (5 lines). Various AP and TN state transport bus routes also serve the airport. Public radio taxis are provided by Meru and Skycabs. Accomodation is available at the 305 room Novotel Hyderabad Airport hotel in the vicinity of the airport. Air-India and Lufthansa Technik have MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) facilities at the airport.

RGIA handled over 20.9 million passengers in 2018 and handled on an average 432 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Kannur International Airport

Kerala's fourth international greenfield airport, located in Kannur (Cannanore) in Northern Kerala, was inaugurated on Dec 9 '18. Air India Express operated the first scheduled departure bound for Abu Dhabi. The airport features a 97 000 m² integrated passenger terminal (8th largest in India) and a 3 050 m runway and with a total project cost of ₹ 22.9 bn. The first test flight landed in Feb '16. The airport is being promoted on a private public partnership model, stakeholders include AAI, Govt of Kerala and Bharat Petroleum. The ICAO and IATA codes for the airport are VOKN and CNN respectively. International airlines do not serve the airport.
Kannur International Airport handled on an average 34 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Lucknow Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport

A new integrated terminal (floor area 84 000 m²) is under construction at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport which serves Lucknow and is the busiest airport in Uttar Pradesh. The cost for the new terminal is estimated at ₹ 14 bn. Lucknow Airport's new terminal is expected to be completed by end-21.

As part of AAI's airport privatisation programme, Lucknow Airport was handed over to the Adani Group on Nov 1 '20 with a 50 year concession agreement which includes the operation, management and development of the airport.
Lucknow airport handled on an average 124 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Mangaluru International Airport

The present 18 600 m² passenger terminal at Mangaluru Bajpe Airport is being expanded at an estimated cost of ₹ 1.3 bn to facilitate the growing number of passengers using the airport. The expansion (planned to be completed by Apr '21) will add another 10 000 m² incl. four new baggage conveyor belts and two additional aerobridges (four aerobridges are in use in the present intergrated terminal).

Mangaluru Airport was handed over to the Adani Group (Adani Mangaluru International Airport Ltd.) on Oct 30 '20 with a 50 year concession agreement which includes the operation, management and development of the airport.
Mangaluru airport handled on an average 38 daily takeoffs and landings in Dec 2022.

Upcoming Greenfield Airports

Noida International Airport

Construction at the greenfield airport site of Noida International Airport got underway in Aug '22. The planned airport is located in Jewar (Greater Noida), Uttar Pradesh (approx. 80 km south of Delhi or approx. 70 km from IGIA) serving NCR and western Uttar Pradesh. Flughafen Zürich AG, the promoter with a 100 % stake, signed a 40 year concession agreement for the construction/development and operation of the airport. The first phase of the airport with a cost of approx. ₹ 57 bn and an annual capacity to handle at least 12 million passengers, is projected to be opened in late 2024. The passenger terminal is planned to encompass an area of just over 100 000 m² in the first phase.

Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA)

A second airport is being developed in Ulwe (Raigad district) close to Panvel Creek south of Navi Mumbai. The airport will feature two parallel east-west runways and a passenger terminal capable of handling initially up to 10 million passengers per annum. The airport will occupy an area of 11.6 km². Pre-development work began in Nov '17 and the first phase of the airport is planned to be commissioned in 2025. The airport is largely expected to cater to domestic traffic and some regional routes while the existing CSMIA facility will focus on international and domestic trunk services.

The airport is being developed in a PPP (Public Private Partnership) with GVK holding a 74 % stake and CIDCO the remaining 26 %.

Goa Manohar International Airport

Goa's new greenfield airport named as Manohar International Airport is located at Mopa, North Goa and was constructed at  an estimated cost of ₹ 30 billion. The 1500 acre airport has been developed by GMR Airport Ltd. The initial capacity of the airport terminal is 5 m per annum. The present passenger terminal at Dabolim airport has a floor area of 62 000 m² and a designed passenger throughput of 7.8 m per annum. The first phase of the new airport was launched for commercial use on Jan 5 ´23 with at least Akasa Air, GoAir and IndiGo announcing multiple daily flights to/from the new airport.

Rajkot

AAI is developing a new airport at Hirasar at an estimated cost of ₹ 14 bn as the existing airport serving Rajkot (fourth largest city in Gujarat) cannot be expanded. The new airport site expands over 1 000 ha and is located approx. 30 km from Rajkot. The airport will feature a 23 000 m² passenger terminal equipped with four aerobridges and capable of handling up to 1 280 hourly passengers. The airport is expected to be ready for commercial operations by end '23.

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Major Airports of India Data

Delhi - Indira Gandhi International
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IATA/ICAO Code:	DEL/VIDP
Elevation:	237 m
Runways (parallel):	10/28, 3 810 x 46 m (12 500 ft), Rwy 28 ILS CAT-IIIB, Rwy 10 ILS CAT-I, asphalt 09/27, 2 813 x 46 m (9 229 ft), Rwy 27 ILS CAT-I, asphalt 11R/29L, 4 430 x 60 m, ILS CAT-IIIB, asphalt 11L/29R, 4 400 m runway expected to be commissioned by early '23
Terminals:	Terminal 1D, T2: 71 000 m², T3 (Dom and Int'l): 480 000 m² Terminal 3: All int'l services and the following domestic airlines: AirAsia India, Air India, Vistara, IndiGo flights 6E 2000 to 6E 2999 and SpiceJet flights SG 8000 to SG 8999 Terminal 2:Go First, IndiGo and SpiceJet Terminal 1D: SpiceJet and IndiGo
Aircraft stands:	69 (excl. T3 stands)
Aerobridges (Intl/Dom):	T2: 6, T3: 48 contact stands/78 aerobridges
Operators (Type of aircraft):	Aeroflot (A330), Air Arabia (A320), AirAsia India (A320), Air Asia X (A330), Air Astana (A320), Air Canada (B777), Air France (B777), Air India (B777, B787, A320), Air India Express (B737), Air Mauritius, Akasa Air (B737). Alliance Air (ATR), Ariana Afghan, Avia Traffic Company, Azerbaijan AL (B757), Bhutan AL, Biman Bangladesh AL (B737), British AW (B777), Cathay Pacific (B777), Druk Air (A319), Emirates (B777/A380), Etihad (A320), Ethiopian (B767), Finnair (A330), flybig (ATR), flydubai (B737), flynas (A320), Go First (A320), Gulf Air (A320, B767), IndiGo (A320), Iraqi AW (B737), JAL (B787), Jazeera AW (A320), Kam Air, KLM (B787), Kuwait AW (A330), LOT Polish Airlines (B787), Lufthansa (A350, A380), Mahan Air (A310), Malaysia (A330), NokScoot (B777), Oman Air (B737), Qatar AW, Nepal AL (A320,A330), Saudi Arabian, Singapore (B777,A380), Somon Air (B737), SpiceJet (B737), SriLankan (A320), Swiss (A330), Tajik Air (B737), Thai AW, Turkish, Turkmenistan (B737), Ukraine Intl (B737, B767), United (B787), Uzbekistan AW (B767), Virgin Atlantic (A330) and Vistara (B787,A320)
Direct Routes (International):	Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Ashgabat, Astana, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok, Basra, Birmingham, Bishkek, Chicago, Colombo, Damascus, Damman, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Dushanbe, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jeddah, Kabul, Kandahar, Kathmandu, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London, Madinah, Malé, Mauritius, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, Muscat, Moscow, Najaf, Newark, New York, Paro, Paris, Phuket, Riyadh, Rome, San Francisco, Seoul, Sharjah, Singapore, Sydney, Tashkent, Tehran, Toronto, Tokyo, Vancouver, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington, D.C., Yangon and Zurich
Direct Routes (Domestic):	Adampur, Agartala, Agra, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bagdogra, Bareilly, Bengaluru, Bathinda, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bhuj, Bikaner, Bilaspur, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Darbhanga, Dehradun, Deogarh, Dharamsala, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Durgapur, Gaya, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jammu, Jharsuguda, Jeddah, Jodhpur, Kandla, Kannur, Kanpur, Khajuraho, Kishangarh, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kullu, Leh, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mangaluru, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Pakyong (seasonal), Pathankot, Patna, Pantnagar, Porbandar, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Shillong, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupati, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam
A full bird's eyeview of Delhi IGIA airport from a height of 7.3 km. The international terminal is located near the bottom left corner and the domestic terminal 1D on the rightside sandwiched between the two parallel runways (9/27 is the upper runway while 10/28 is the lower one). New rapid taxiways have been constructed to facilitate speedier ground movement of aircraft. A new integrated terminal 3 was opened in 2010. Image © 2010 GeoEye and © 2010 Google
Mumbai - Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International
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IATA/ICAO Code:	BOM/VABB
Elevation:	11 m
Runways (intersecting):	Heading 27/09, 3 660 x 60 m (12 008 ft) ILS CAT-II (RWY27) and CAT I (RWY09), asphalt Heading 14/32, 2 990 x 60 m (9 810 ft), ILS CAT I (both), asphalt
Terminals:	Terminal 1A, 1B, 1C, T2 integrated terminal began operations in Feb 2014
Aircraft stands:	108
Aerobridges (Intl/Dom):	~60
Operators (Type of aircraft):	Air Arabia (A320), AirAsia India (A320), Air Canada (B77L), Air China (A330), Air France (A340), Air India (B777, B787 Dreamliner, A320), Air Mauritius (767), Alliance Air (ATR), ANA, Air Seychelles (A320), Air Tanzania (B787), Akasa Air (B737), Bangkok AW, Bhutan AL (A320), British AW (B777), Cathay Pacific (A330, 777), Delta AL (B777), Druk Air, EgyptAir (B737, A330), El Al (B777), Emirates (B777, A380), Ethiopian (A350), Etihad (A320,A330), Finnair (A330), flydubai, Go First (A320), Gulf Air (B767, A320), IndiGo (A320), Iran Air (A320), Iraqi AW (B737), Kenya AW (B737), KLM (B787), Korean Air (A330), Kuwait AW (A320), Lufthansa (744), Malaysia, Oman Air (B737,A330), Qatar AW (B777), RwandAir (B737), Saudi Arabian (A330), Singapore (A330,A350), SpiceJet (B737,BQ4), SriLankan (A321), Swiss (A330), Thai AW (EQV), Thai Lion Air, Thai Smile Air (A320), Turkish AL, United AL (B777), Uzbekistan AW (A320), Virgin Atlantic (789), Vistara (A320) and Yemenia
Direct Routes (International):	Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Aden, Amman, Amsterdam, Baghdad, Bahrain, Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Colombo, Damman, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kigali, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), London (Stansted), Madinah, Mahe, Malé, Mauritius, Muscat, Nairobi, Najaf, New York, Newark, Paris, Paro, Phuket, Riyadh, Seoul, Shanghai, Sharjah, Singapore, Tashkent, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto and Zurich
Direct Routes (Domestic):	Ahmedabad, Agartala, Allahabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Belagavi, Belgaum, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Darbhanga, Dehradun, Delhi, Diu, Durgapur, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Itanagar, Hubballi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jalgaon, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jharsuguda, Jodhpur, Kandla, Kannur, Keshod, Kishangarh, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Madurai, Lucknow, Mangalore, Nagpur, Nanded, Patna, Porbandar, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rajkot, Shirdi, Silchar, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam
A bird's eyeview of the new Terminal 2 at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. Imagery © 2016 DigitalGlobe, Map data © 2016 Google
Bengaluru - Kempegowda International Airport
Bengaluru Airport - International Air Route Map >>
IATA/ICAO Code:	BLR/VOBL
Elevation:	915 m (3 002 ft)
Runway:	09L/27R, 4 000 m, CAT I ILS 09R/27L, 4 000 m, CAT IIIB ILS
Terminals:	T1: Integrated ca 150 000 m² T2: 255 000 m²
Aircraft stands:
Aerobridges (Intl/Dom):	6/6
Operators (Type of aircraft):	Air Arabia (A320), Air France (B777), Air India, Air India Express (B737), Air Mauritius, AirAsia, AirAsia India, Akasa Air (B737), Alliance Air (ATR), British AW (A350), Cathay Dragon, Emirates (B777), Ethiopian AL (B737), Etihad AW (A320), Go First (A320), Gulf Air, IndiGo (A320/ATR), KLM /B787), Kuwait AW (A320), Lufthansa, Malaysia AL, Nepal AL, Oman Air, Qatar AW, Saudia, Scoot, SilkAir, Singapore (B777), SpiceJet, SriLankan, Thai AirAsia, Thai AW, Vistara (A320)
Direct Routes (International):	Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Amsterdam, Bahrain, Bangkok, Colombo, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London, Male, Mauritius, Muscat, Paris, Phuket, Riyadh, Sharjah and Singapore
Direct Routes (Domestic):	Agartala, Agatti, Agra, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Ballari, Bareilly, Belagavi, Bhubaneswar, Bidar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Darbhanga, Dehradun, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Durgapur, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hubballi, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jamnagar, Jharsuguda, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kanpur, Kannur, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kurnool, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangaluru, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Rajamahendravaram, Rajkot, Ranchi, Shirdi, Silchar, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur, Varanasi, Vidyanagar (Jindal Vijyanagar), Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam
Chennai
Chennai Airport - International Air Route Map >>
IATA/ICAO Code:	MAA/VOMM
Elevation:	16 m
Runways (intersecting):	primary 07/25, 3 658 x 45 m (12 001 ft) (CAT I ILS), asphalt secondary 12/30, 2 925 x 45 m (9 596 ft), concrete/asphalt/macadam
Terminals:	International: 59 000 m² (T4), Domestic (T1): 78 300 m²
Aircraft stands:	86
Aerobridges (Intl/Dom):	5/10
International Operators (Type of aircraft):	Air Arabia, AirAsia, Air Austral, Air France (B787/A330), Air Mauritius, All Nippon Airways (B787), Batik Air, British AW (B787), Cathay Pacific, Emirates (B777), Etihad (A320), Flydubai, Gulf Air, Kuwait AW (A330), Lufthansa CityLine (A340), Malaysia, Maldivian, Oman Air, Qatar AW, Saudia, Scoot, SilkAir (A320), Singapore AL (A330), SriLankan, Thai AirAsia, Thai AW and US-Bangla Airlines (B737)
Indian Operators	Air India (A320, B787), Akasa Air (B737), Alliance Air (ATR), Go First (A320), Air India Express (B737), SpiceJet (B737), IndiGo (A320/ATR), TruJet (ATR), Vistara (A320)
Direct Routes (International):	Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Chattogram, Colombo, Damman, Denpasar Bali, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jaffna, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London, Malé, Mauritius, Muscat, Réunion, Riyadh, Saint-Denis, Sharjah Singapore and Tokyo.
Direct Routes (Domestic):	Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Delhi, Durgapur, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jharsuguda, Kadapa, Kannur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kurnool, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysuru, Patna, Pune, Port Blair, Raipur, Rajamahendravaram, Ranchi, Salem, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tuticorin, Vadodara, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam
A full bird's eyeview of the terminal area at Chennai airport. The international terminal is located to the left of the domestic terminal. Chennai Metro's Airport station provides a connection to the city. Imagery © 2016 DigitalGlobe and Map data © 2016 Google
Kolkata - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International
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Short Video Clips - Copyright Timir Mozumder After takeoff from CCU runway 19L (filmed in 2002, low-res) >> Approaching CCU runway 19L (filmed in 2003, low-res) >> British Airways Boeing 747-400 touchdown at CCU runway 19L (filmed in 2003, low-res) >>
A bird's eyeview of the Kolkata NSCB airport. Great vistas await the air traveller on a flight to eg Yangon, Port Blair or Bangkok once the awesome Sundarbans (abode of the Royal Bengal Tiger) river delta area comes into view some minutes after take-off. Image © 2014 DigitalGlobe
IATA/ICAO Code:	CCU/VECC
Elevation:	5 m
Runways (parallel):	01R/19L, 3 627 x 46 m (11 899 ft), 19L-ILS Cat II / 01R Cat IIIB, asphalt 01L/19R, 2 839 m (further extension to 3 240 m is underway) x 46 m (9 350 ft), asphalt. Secondary runway ILS Cat I.
Terminals:	New integrated terminal - 195 000 m² Old International (used for seasonal Haj flights) - 30 000 m² Old domestic (not in use) - 23 000 m²
Aircraft stands:	65 (to be gradually increased to 105 by 2024)
Aerobridges (Intl/Dom):	1/3 (18 in new terminal)
Int'l Operators (Type of aircraft):	AirAsia (A320), Biman Bangladesh Airlines (B737), Bhutan Airlines (A319), China Eastern (B737), Druk Air (A319), Emirates (B777), Etihad Airways (A320), Malindo Air (B737), Myanmar Airways International (A319), Novoair (ATR), Qatar Airways (B787), SilkAir (B737), Singapore Airlines (A350), SriLankan (A320), Regent Airways (B737), Thai AW (B777), Thai AirAsia, Thai Smile (A320) and US-Bangla Airlines (B737)
Domestic Operators (Type of aircraft):	Air India (A320, B787), AirAsia India (A320), Alliance Air (ATR), Flybig (ATR), Go First (A320), IndiaOne Air (C28), SpiceJet (BQ4, B737), IndiGo (A320) and Vistara (A320)
Direct Routes (International):	Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Chattogram, Colombo, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Paro, Singapore and Yangon
Direct Routes (Domestic):	Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Cooch Behar, Coimbatore, Darbhanga, Dehradun, Delhi, Deogarh, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaya, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jharsuguda, Kochi, Lilabari, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pakyong (seasonal), Pasighat, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rupsi, Shillong, Silchar, Srinagar, Surat, Tezpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur, Varanasi and Vizag
A bird's eyeview of the Bengaluru KIAL located at Devanahalli to the north of the city from a height of 5.4 km. Commercial airline traffic ended on May 23rd 2008 at the old Hindustan Airport with the opening of the new Bengaluru International airport. Image © 2010 Digital Eye, © 2010 Digital Globe and © 2010 Google
Hyderabad - Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
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Elevation:
IATA/ICAO Code:	HYD/VOHS
Runway:	09/27, 4,260 x 60 m, ILS Cat I
Terminals:	Rajiv Gandhi Int'l: 105 000 m² and Interim Int'l Dep. Terminal: ca 10 000 m²
Aircraft stands:	83
Aerobridges (Intl/Dom):	12
Operators (Type of aircraft):	Air Arabia (A320), AirAsia, AirAsia India (A320), Air India, Alliance Air (ATR), British AW (B787), Cathay Pacific (A330), Emirates (B777), Etihad (A320), Flydubai, flynas (A320), Go First (A320), Gulf Air, IndiGo (A320/ATR), Jazeera AW, Malaysia AL, Oman Air, Qatar AW (B787), Saudia (B777), Scoot, Silk Air (B737,A320), SpiceJet (B737,BQ4), SriLankan (A320/A321), Thai AirAsia, Thai AW and Vistara (A320)
Direct Routes (International):	Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Chicago, Colombo, Damman, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), Hong Kong, Malé, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah and Singapore
Direct Routes (Domestic):	Ahmedabad, Agartala, Aurangabad, Ballari, Belgavi, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Chennai, Darbhanga, Dehradun, Delhi, Durgapur, Goa, Gondia, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hubballi, Indore, Jabalpur, Jagdalpur, Jaipur, Jamnagar, Jharsuguda, Kadapa, Kannur, Kishangarh, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangaluru, Mumbai, Mysuru, Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Port Blair, Puducherry, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rajamahendravaram, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vidyanagar (Jindal Vijyanagar), Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam