Domestic Airports of India

Civil Aviation in India

• India is one of the fastest growing Economy of the world. India is moving forward in every transport sector, whether they are running on the ground or flying in the sky.
• Recently, due to New Government Schemes such as UDAAN, Air travel in India is growing at extraordinary rates.
• India will be the 3^rd largest civil aviation market in the world by 2020. It recorded an air traffic of 131 million passengers in 2017, of which 100 million were domestic passengers.
• All the airports in India are managed by the Airport Authority of India (AAI) which works under the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

History of Airlines in India

• In 1911, the World’s first domestic commercial aviation was introduced in India, when a flight took off from Allahabadfor Naini over a distance of 6 miles.
• Juhu Aerodrome was the first airport in India.
• The first International flight to and from India was introduced in December 1912 over the route, London-Karachi-Delhi with the collaboration of Indian state air services and UK based imperial airways.
• JRD Tata became the first person to be awarded with pilot license by Aeronautique International on behalf of Aero club of India and Burma in Feb 1929.
• Tata Airlines became a division of Tata Sons Limited in 1932. It started Air Mail services from Karachi, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Bellary, Madras.
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) set up by Walchand Hirachand in association with the then Mysore Government in 1940 at Bangalore.
• In 1945 the Deccan Airways was founded – jointly owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad and Tata. Its first flight began in July 1946. Later, in 1946, Tata Airlines changed its name to Air India.
• In March 1953, Indian Parliament passed the Air Corporations Act 1953, and Indian Airlines and Air India International were set up after nationalisation of the entire airline industry. Due to this, 8 formerly independent domestic airlines were merged.
• In 1972, the International Airports Authority of India (IAAI) was constituted.
• The National Airports Authority was constituted in 1986 for domestic airports.
• In 1990-91, after the de-regulation of the civil aviation sector entry of private airlines began. Permission were granted to operate charter and non-scheduled services under the ‘Air Taxi’ Scheme. The East West Airlines was the first national level private airline to operate in the country after almost 37 years.
• In 1995 Airport Authority of India (AAI) was constituted after the merging of the International Airport Authority of India with National Airports Authority.
• The work of AAI was to create, maintaining, upgrading, managing civil aviation infrastructure.
• More than half a dozen low-cost carriers entered the Indian market in 2004–05. Major new entrants included Air Deccan, Air Sahara, Kingfisher Airlines, SpiceJet, GoAir, Paramount Airways and IndiGo.
• Government of India launched UDAN-RCS in 2016, increasing the domestic traffic in the India.

In this article, we will discuss about the complete list of Domestic Airports in India. If you want to learn about International Airports of India, You can find it Here.

Complete List of Domestic Airports of India

Complete List of all Domestic Airports of India statewise is given below –

So, this was all about the Complete Statewise List of Domestic Airports of India. You can also read about Complete List of International Airports of India below –

Complete List of International Airports of India

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