Further information is provided on the 30 biggest airports in India. At Indira Gandhi International Airport alone, 59 airlines operate and serve flights to and from 97 destinations.
Out of the twelve airlines of the country we have listed biggest 9. IndiGo is leading here with a total of 96 flight destinations.
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The 30 biggest airports in India
| IATA | Name | City | Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEL | Indira Gandhi International Airport | New Delhi | 59 | 97 |
| BOM | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai | 49 | 83 |
| MAA | Chennai International Airport | Chennai | 32 | 40 |
| BLR | Kempegowda International Airport | Bangalore | 28 | 40 |
| co*k | Cochin International Airport | Kochi | 24 | 22 |
| HYD | Rajiv Gandhi International Airport | Hyderabad | 20 | 32 |
| CCU | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport | Kolkata | 19 | 37 |
| TRV | Trivandrum International Airport | Thiruvananthapuram | 19 | 17 |
| CCJ | Calicut International Airport | Calicut | 11 | 18 |
| GOI | Dabolim Airport | Vasco da Gama | 9 | 12 |
| ATQ | Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport | Amritsar | 7 | 6 |
| AMD | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport | Ahmedabad | 13 | 18 |
| JAI | Jaipur International Airport | Jaipur | 10 | 9 |
| LKO | Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport | Lucknow | 9 | 9 |
| CJB | Coimbatore International Airport | Coimbatore | 8 | 8 |
| TRZ | Tiruchirapally Civil Airport Airport | Tiruchirappally | 8 | 4 |
| PNQ | Pune Airport | Pune | 7 | 12 |
| IXB | Bagdogra Airport | Siliguri | 7 | 5 |
| GAU | Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport | Guwahati | 7 | 12 |
| NAG | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport | Naqpur | 6 | 8 |
| IXC | Chandigarh Airport | Chandigarh | 6 | 3 |
| IXJ | Jammu Airport | Jammu | 6 | 4 |
| SXR | Sheikh ul Alam Airport | Srinagar | 6 | 6 |
| IXM | Madurai Airport | Madurai | 6 | 3 |
| IDR | Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport | Indore | 5 | 7 |
| IXA | Agartala Airport | Agartala | 5 | 3 |
| PAT | Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport | Patna | 5 | 4 |
| IXR | Birsa Munda Airport | Ranchi | 5 | 4 |
| VNS | Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport | Varanasi | 5 | 5 |
| IXE | Mangalore International Airport | Mangalore | 5 | 7 |
Freight volume
In 2021, a total of 907.93 million ton-kilometers (= total mass transported in tons multiplied by kilometers traveled) of cargo was moved by air in India. Indira Gandhi International Airport alone accounted for around 857,419 metric tons.
The biggest airlines based in India
The largest airline in the country with scheduled passenger traffic and in terms of fleet size is IndiGo. In 2021, it carried 12.50 million passengers. It currently has a fleet of 280 aircrafts. The main airlines for civil passenger traffic in India are:
| IATA | Name | Callsign | Fleet size | Destinations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6E | IndiGo | Ifly | 280 | 96 |
| AI | Air India | Airindia | 127 | 102 |
| SG | SpiceJet | Spicejet | 118 | 53 |
| G8 | Go First | Go First | 57 | 38 |
| UK | Vistara | Vistara | 54 | 43 |
| I5 | AirAsia India | Red Knight | 28 | 18 |
| IX | Air India Express | Express India | 24 | 33 |
| 9I | Air India Regional | Allied | 21 | 75 |
| 9W | Jet Airways | Jet Airways | 12 | 69 |
