In various exams, sometimes questions are asked about location of airports or their operating authority. As a well informed individual, you are expected to know about various airports in India. Keeping this thing in mind, we have arranged the following list to ensure a quick and short revision for aspirants before facing any competitive exam. In order to face any unpredictable competitive exam, a candidate is required to master the small details. The information regarding airports in India is one such small piece of information. We at exampariksha would not advice you to by-heart the list. Rote learning is not a good method for retention of information for use in examination. This is because, by-heart information has a tendency of not getting recalled properly in the exam time.
Merely looking at the list of airports in India for frequent revision is a best practice. Here we are providing two separate list consisting of International and Domestic Airports of India.
International Airports in India:
| City | Name of the Airport | Owned by |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Amritsar | Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Bengaluru | Bengaluru International Airport | Bengaluru International Airport Ltd |
| Chennai | Chennai International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Cochin | Cochin International Airport | Cochin International Airport Ltd (first PPP airport) |
| Goa | Goa International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Guwahati | Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Hyderabad | GMR Rajiv Gandhi International Airport | GMR Hyderabad International Airport (P) Ltd |
| Kolkata | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Mumbai | Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport | GVK led consortium and Airports Authority of India |
| Delhi | Indira Gandhi International Airport | GMR Group (54%), Airports Authority of India (26%), Fraport & Eraman Malaysia (10% each). |
| Thiruvananthapuram | Trivandrum International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Port Blair | Vir Savarkar International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Calicut | Calicut International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Nagpur | Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Jaipur | Jaipur International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Lucknow | Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Varanasi | Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Mangalore | Mangalore International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Tiruchirappalli | Tiruchirappalli International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Coimbator | Coimbatore International Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Bhubaneshwar | Biju Patnaik Airport | Airports Authority of India |
| Imphal | Imphal Airport | Airports Authority of India |
Domestic Airports in India:
| Name of the Airport | City |
|---|---|
| Sri Satya Sai Airport | Puttaparthi |
| Singerbhil Airport | Agartala |
| Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport | Patna |
| Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport | Leh |
| Sheikh ul Alam Airport | Srinagar |
| Lengpui Airport | Aizwal |
| Jolly Grant Airport | Dehradun |
| Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport | Indore |
| Birsa Munda Airport | Ranchi |
| Agatti Aerodrome | Agatti (Lakshadweep) |
Other Domestic Airports are located at Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Tirupathi, Vijayawada, Vishakapatnam, Dibrugarh, Gaya, Chandigarh, Trichy, Raipur, Diu, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Surat, Shimla, Jammu, Pathankot, Jamshedpur, Belgaum, Mangalore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Khajuraho, Aurangabad, Jabalpur, Pune, Solapur, Shillong, Puducherry, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Madurai, Gorakhpur and Kanpur. These airports are located at same location as their name suggest with the name of the city.
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