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INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS OF INDIA AND IATA CODES


India has 24 International airports spread across country. An international airport provides air passenger connectivity between countries along with more facilities compare to domestic airports. Right from Immigration to Customs along with many basic facilities like free WiFi, drinking water, Airline lounges   currency exchange counters and many more. On  December 17 1903,Overville and Wilber capped 4 years of research and design efforts with a 120 foot 12 seconds flight at Kitty Hawk, North Corolina-the first powered flight in a heavier than air machine. Prior to that people had flown only in ballons and gliders.
The first scheduled air service began in florida on jan 1 1914,between St.Peters burg and Tampa and covered 29 KM within 23 Minutes.
Boeing   built what generally is considered the first modern passenger airline the boeing 247.In 1924, construction of civil airports began in India following constructions began at Dum Dum in Calcutta, Bamrauli in Allahabad, and Gillbert Hill Bombay.
1932 Tata Airlines came to being as devision of Tata sons Limited .And in 1946,Air India came into being when Tata Airlines changed its name to Air India.In 1948 Air India signed an Agreement with the Indian Government to operate international services under the name of Air India International Ltd. (Source:Wikipedia)
 Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) is the largest and busiest Airport in India constructed in 5495 Acres of Land.Half of the air traffic in india is handled by Indira Gandhi International Airport and Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport Mumbai. Maharashtra state has more number of Airports in india (9)
Juhu Aerodrom is the oldest airport and Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport Ladakh is the beautiful and Lengpui Airport Mizoram is the smallest airport in India.
Recently Union Ministry has added India’s 100th Operational Airport that is Pakyong airport,Sikkim.


Sl.No.
Airport
City
State/ Union Territory
IATA Code
1.
Veer Savarkar International Airport
PortBlair
Andaman and Nicobar
IXZ
2.
Vishkhapatnam International Airport
Vishkhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh
VTZ
3.
RajivGandhi International Airport
Hyderabad
Telangana
HYD
4.
Lokpriya Gopinath Bardoloi International Airport
Guwahati
Assam
GAU
5.
Indira Gandhi International Airport
New Delhi
New Delhi
DEL
6
Goa International Airport
Goa
Goa
GOI
7.
Sardar Vallabhai International Airport
Ahmedabad
Gujarat
AMD
8.
Kempegowda International Airport
Bangalore
Karnataka
BLR
9.
Mangalore International Airport
Mangalore
Karnataka
IXE
10.
Cochin International Airport
Cochin
Kerala
COK
11.
Calicut International Airport
Kozikode
Kerala
CCJ
12.
Trivandrum International Airport
Tiruvnanthapuram
Kerala
TRV
13.
Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
Mumbai
Maharashtra
BOM
14.
Dr. Babasaheb ambedkar International Airport
Nagpur
Maharashtra
NAG
15.
Tulihal International Airport
Imphal
Manipur
IMF
16.
Biju Patnaik International Airport
Bhubaneshwar
Odisha
BBI
17.
Sri Guru Ramdass Jee International Airport
Amritsar
Punjab
ATQ
18.
Jaipur International Airport
Jaipur
Rajasthan
JAI
19.
Chennai International Airport
Chennai
Tamilnadu
MAA
20.
Coimbatore International Airport
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
CJB
21.
Tiruchirapalli International Airport
Tiruchirapalli
Tamilnadu
TRZ
22.
Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport
Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh
LKO
23.
Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport
Varanashi
Uttar Pradesh
VNS
24.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bhose International Airport
Kolkata
West Bengal
CCU
REFERENCES https://www.ibpsguide.com/list-international-airports-in-india

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  1. akash12 February 2020 at 22:19

    As India is high population country,the travel facilities and management is must.So,In India has many international airports to travel around the world for passengers.Recently made Airport in Sikkim is 100th airport in India. Thats great.Thanks for share the blog.We have an International flight services for Shirdi Temple in India. shirdi airport | shirdi airport flights

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