International Airports of India

17 international airport's of India

1. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata

Kolkata airport traditionally served as a strategic stopover on the air route from Europe to Indochina and Australia. Many pioneering flights passed through the airport, including that of Amelia Earhart in 1937. In 1924, KLM began scheduled stops at Calcutta, as part of their Amsterdam to Batavia (Jakarta) flight. The same year, a Royal Air Force aircraft landed in Calcutta as part of the first round-the-world expedition by any air force

2. Chennai International Airport, Chennai

The aviation history of the city began in 1910, when a city-based Corsican hotelier Giacomo D'Angelis built an aircraft and tested it in Island Grounds. Inspired by Frenchman, Louis Blériot, the first to fly across English Channel in July 1909, D'Angelis collaborated with Simpson's, a leading coach-builder in the city, to build a biplane. It was also 49th busiest airport in Asia in 2018 making it one of the four major airports in India under the top 50 list of 2018. In financial year 2021, the airport handled 5.49 million passengers.

3. Thiruvananthapuram International Airport

The airport was established in 1932 as part of the Royal Flying Club under the initiative of Lt. Col. Raja Goda Varman, husband of Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi, the Rani of Attingal and of Travancore Kingdom.

The first flight took off on 1 November 1935, carrying mails of Royal Anchal (Travancore Post) to Bombay. In 1938, After Independence, the airstrip was used for domestic flights with the construction of a new domestic terminal,

4. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport is an international airport serving the twin cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in Gujarat. It is named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India. This airport is the busiest and largest airport in the Indian state of Gujarat. The airport was set up in 1937, while international operations began on 26 January 1991. It was categorised as an International airport on 23 May 2000.

5. Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar

Being named after Sri Guru Ram Das Ji, this airport is located at a distance of 11 km from the city. He was the fourth Sikh Guru and the founder of Amritsar city. First international flight to Kabul was launched in 1960. In 1982, Air India started direct international flight from Amritsar to Birmingham (UK) with a stop at Moscow and this flight became so popular that it was termed as no.1 flight for Air India,

6. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport also known as Guwahati International Airport and formerly as 'Borjhar Airport', is the primary airport of the North-Eastern states of India. It is the 12th busiest airport in India. In 2002, the first international flight operated by Air India from Guwahati to Bangkok, using an Airbus A310 aircraft, becoming the first international airport in the North-East region.

7. Goa International Airport (Civil Enclave)

Dabolim Goa International Airport is the international airport in Dabolim, Goa, India. It is operated by the Airports Authority of India as a civil enclave in an Indian Navy naval airbase named INS Hansa. The airport is located in Dabolim. The airport was built in 1955 by the Government of the Estado da Índia Portuguesa, on 249 acres (101 ha) of land, as the Aeroporto de Dabolim,

8. Srinagar International Airport, Srinagar (Civil Enclave)

Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport also known as Srinagar Airport and Budgam Airbase is a International airport that serves Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is owned by the Indian Air Force, In March 2005, In 1979, the Airports Authority of India established a civil enclave at the airport. the airport was granted international status by the Indian government. In 2006

9. Jaipur International Airport

Jaipur International Airport is the primary airport serving Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Jaipur Airport is the 11th busiest airport in India in daily scheduled flight operations.

10. Kozhikode Airport, Calicut

Calicut International Airport also known as Karipur Airport or Kozhikode Airport, is an international airport located in Karipur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India. In 1977, Calicut Airport was sanctioned due to long periods of struggle under the leadership of the late freedom fighter K. P. Kesava Menon. The airport was inaugurated in April 1988.

11. Veer Savarkar International Airport (Civil Enclave), Port Blair, A&N Islands (UT)

Veer Savarkar International Airport, also known as Port Blair Airport is an international airport located south of Port Blair and is the main airport of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Originally known as "Port Blair Airport", it was renamed in 2002 after the Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who had been detained in the Cellular Jail.

12. Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi

Indira Gandhi International Airport (IATA: DEL, ICAO: VIDP) is the primary international airport serving Delhi, India. The airport situated in Palam, Delhi. Safdarjung Airport was built in 1930 and was the main airport for Delhi until 1962. Due to increasing passenger traffic at Safdarjung, civilian operations were moved to Palam Airport (later renamed to IGIA) in 1962.

13. Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport is the primary international airport serving Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is the second busiest airport in the country. RAF Santacruz was constructed in the 1930s. It was a bigger airfield than nearby Juhu Aerodrome and was home to several RAF squadrons during World War II from 1942 to 1947.

14. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (GMR), Hyderabad

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is an international airport that serves Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad, In November 2000, under the N. Chandrababu Naidu government and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed a memorandum of understanding on the greenfield airport project, establishing it as a public–private partnership.

15. Bangalore International Airport Limited, Bengaluru

Kempegowda International Airport is an international airport serving Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, in the southern part of India. In the late 1990s, the first international flights started. Air India was the first airline to offer international flights, flying to Singapore. In 2000.

16. Cochin International Airport, Kochi

Cochin International Airport is an International airport serving the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. Located at Nedumbassery. Kochi's airport began as an airstrip on Willingdon Island, built in 1936 by the Kingdom of Kochi.

 

17. Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur (Maharashtra)

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport is an international airport serving the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. The airport was commissioned during the First World War in 1917-18 for the RFC/RAF. The service was operated from January 1949 until October 1973.