There has been a sudden surge of interest in the country of India, for the purposes of business and leisure travel. This has led to the hastening of the development and up gradation of international airports in the country. There are a total of over 120 airports in the country (with more than 320 airstrips), 12 of which are international airports which connect major cities of India with sought after foreign destinations. Among these, the Indira Gandhi International Airport and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport receive the most traffic. These airports serve to two of the most relevant cities of the country of India and Asia, which are Delhi and Mumbai respectively. These two airports, together, cater to more than half of the air traffic of the whole of South Asia.
The other cities, with an international airport, include Amritsar, Guwahati, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Vasco Da Gama (Goa), Chennai, Bangalore, Cochin and Thiruvanthapuram.
Most of these international airports in India are managed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) which has the responsibility of creating, maintaining, upgrading and managing the available infrastructure for civil aviation in India, including the airports. The organization works under the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
Each International airport in India features state of the art infrastructure. The facilities that are available for landing, signaling, flier waiting and the others have been upgraded and are of the international standard currently. The development of infrastructure has seen considerable enhancement since the privatization of four of the international airports, which are Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. With an agreement of revenue sharing, the Government of India has handed over these airports to GMR and GVK, two private companies, for modernization.
Amritsar International Airport
City: Amritsar
State: Punjab
Longitude: 74″ 48′ 0″ E
Latitude: 31″ 42′ 0″ N
Airport Code: ATQ
Indira Gandhi International Airport
City: New Delhi
Longitude: 77″ 7′ 5″ E
Latitude: 28″ 34′ 10″ N
Airport Code: DEL
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport
City: Kolkata
Longitude: 88″ 26′ 0″ E
Latitude: 22″ 38′ 0″ N
Airport Code: CCU
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
City: Mumbai
Longitude: 72″ 52′ 0″ E
Latitude: 19″ 5′ 0″ N
Airport Code: BOM
Rajiv Gandhi Airport
City: Hyderabad
Longitude: 78″ 29′ 0″ E
Latitude: 17″ 23′ 0″ N
Airport Code: HYD
Dabolim Airport
City: Goa
Longitude: 73″ 50′ 30″ E
Latitude: 15″ 30′ 0″ N
Airport Code: GOI
Madras International (Meenambakkam)
City: Chennai/ Madras
Longitude: 80″ 10′ 31″ E
Latitude: 12″ 59′ 41″ N
Airport Code: MAA
Bangalore International Airport Limited
City: Bangalore
Longitude: 77″ 36′ 0″ E
Latitude: 12″ 58′ 0″ N
Airport Code: BLR
Thiruvananthapuram International
City: Trivandrum
Longitude: 76″ 55′ 12″ E
Latitude: 8″ 28′ 56″ N
Airport Code: TRV
Kozhikode Airport
City: Kozhikode
Longitude: 75″ 57′ 10″ E
Latitude: 11″ 8′ 0″ N
Airport Code: CCJ
Kochi Airport
City: Kochi
Longitude: 76″ 24′ 29″ E
Latitude: 10″ 9′ 8″ N
Airport Code: COK
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