29 Major Airports in India with (State Wise) Updated Details in 2021

• Airport Name: Dehradun Airport is also known as Jolly Grant Airport.
• Address: Airport Road, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248140.
• Code: DED.
• Daily Average Passengers: 3000+
• Distance from the City: 30km from Dehradun city, 21km from Rishikesh and 44km from Haridwar.
• Opened Year: 1974.

Airport Highlights:

• The Jolly Grant airport is the 36th busiest airport of India.
• It is known as the air gateway of the Garhwal.
• The flight operations at the Jolly Grant airport was suspended from March 2007 to March 2008, for renovation.
• The airport has a capacity of handling 150 passengers at a time during peak hours.

29. West Bengal:

This state, located in Eastern India, is situated between the Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal. Formerly known as Calcutta, Kolkata is the capital. The State has 2 domestic and 1 International airport.

• Airport Name: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
• Address: Jessore Rd, Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal 700052.
• Code: CCU.
• Daily Average Passengers: Approximately 55000.
• Distance from the city: Approximately 17kms.
• Hub for: Air India, Air Asia India, Alliance Air, IndiGo, SpiceJet, Go Air.
• Opened Year: 1929.

Airport Highlights:

• The airport handled more than 20 million passengers in 2017-18 and is the fifth busiest airport in India.
• It is a major center for flights to Northeast India, Bhutan, China, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia.
• The airport has 2 parallel runways – 01L/19R and 01R/19L.

There has been a phenomenal increase in the inbound and outbound travellers in India over the past 2 years and to cater to them a lot of new Domestic and International airports are upcoming, and expansion is going on at many current airports. Currently, there are 132 airports in India that are operational, and soon there will be many more. Those above are the details of one important airport in each of the 29 States of India.