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 100^th 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