Air Transport in India
India's booming economy has created a large middle-class population in India. Air India, India's flag carrier, presently operates a fleet 135 aircraft and plays a major role in connecting India with the rest of the world. Several other foreign airlines connect Indian cities with other major cities across the globe.
Air Deccan, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines, IndiGo Airlines and Air India (formerly Indian Airlines, before merging with Air India) are the most popular brands in domestic air travel in order of their market share. Of these, Jet, Indian and Kingfisher also operate overseas routes after the liberalization of Indian Aviation. These airlines connect more than 80 cities across India. However, a large section of country’s are transport system remains untapped, even though the Mumbai-Delhi air corridor was ranked 6th by the Official Airline Guide in 2007 among the World’s busiest routes
Airports
- Bengaluru International Airport, Bangalore
- Calicut International Airport, Kozhikode
- Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai
- Chennai International Airport, Chennai
- Cochin International Airport, Cochin
- Coimbatore Airport, Coimbatore
- Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur
- Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi
- Mangalore International Airport, Mangalore
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata
- Raja Sansi International Airport, Amritsar
- Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad
- Trivandrum imernationai AirPort, Tniruvanthapuram
- Pune International Airport, Pune