FACTS on Indian Airports
•Largest Airport : Rajiv Gandhi
International Airport, Hyderabad(5945
acres)
•2nd
largest airport: Indira Gandhi international airport, Delhi (5220 acres)
•3rd
largest airport : Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj international airport(4000 acres)
•BONUS FACT : Singapore Changi
International airport is the world’s best airport for the 7th year in a row
•A total of 26 airlines are currently
operating in Indian domestic sector.
•Highest airport in India: kushok bakula
rimpochee airport . Leh-Ladhak, also 22nd
highest airport in the world at 3,256 metres i.e. 10,682 ft above mean sea
level.
•Smallest airport in India: Trichy (Tiruchirappalli)
•Number of airports in India: 449
•Number of airports operated by Airport
Authority of India(AAI): 126
•1st
airport in India: Juhu Aerodrome, this airport was built in the year 1928.
•State having most number of airports:
Gujarat
•Airport named after Maithili poet Vidyapati:
Kavi Kokil Vidyapati
airport, Darbhanga(Bihar).
•Number of private airports in India
(owned by DGCA): 16
•State which do not have any airport in
India: Arunachal Pradesh
•BONUS FACT: Jackson Atlanta International
airport(Hartsfield) is the biggest airport in the world
•State having most numbers of international
airports: Kerala
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