The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is a major airport operator managing 115 airports across the country and also entrused with the sovereign function of providing air traffic services in India. To enhance airport infrastructure in India, modernization of existing airport infrastructure in metro and non-metro cities and construction of greenfield aiports were contemplated. The major initiatives to augment better airport infrastructure across the country are : (a) implementation of PPP projects at four airports of the AAI, namely : Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur, (b) setting up of greenfield airports, namely, Mopa in Goa; Navi Mumbai, Shirdi and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra; Shimoga, Gulbarga, Hassan and Bijapur in Karnataka; Kannur and Arnamula in Kerala; Durgapur in West Bengal; Pakyong in Sikkim; Datia/Gwalior (cargo) in Madhya Pradesh; Kushinagar in Uttar
Pradesh and Karaikal in Puducherry, and (c) development of small airports in Tier II and Tier III cities, namely Hubli and Belgaum in Karnataka, Kishangarh in Rajasthan, lharsuguda in Odisha and Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh.
be revived during 2017-18 and 2018-19 each while 20 airports/airstrips would be revived during 2019-20. The unserved and under-served airports are to be developed without insisting on financial viability. To make flying more affordable, the government has already unveiled the ambitious reg
ional connectivity scheme UDAN ('Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik') under which fares are to be capped at Rs. 2,500 for one-hour flights.
International Airports in India
| S.No. | Name of the International Airport | City |
| 1. | Veer Savarkar International Airport | Port Blair |
| 2. | Rajiv Gandhi International Airport | Hyderabad |
| 3. | Lokpriya Gopinath Bardoloi International Airport | Guwahati |
| 4. | Indira Gandhi International Airport | New Delhi |
| 5. | Dabolirn International Airport | Goa |
| 6. | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport | Ahmedabad |
| 7. | Srinagar International Airport | Srinagar |
| 8. | Kempegowda International Airport | Bangaluru |
| 9. | Manglore International Airport | Mangalore |
| 10. | Cochin International Airport | Kochi |
| 11. | Calicut International Airport | Kozhikode |
| 12. | Trivendrum International Airport | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 13. | Raja Bhoj Airport | Bhopal |
| 14. | Devi Ahilyabai International Airport | Indore |
| 15. | Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai |
| 16. | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport | Nagpur |
| 17. | Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport | Amritsar |
| 18. | Jaipur International Airport | Jaipur |
| 19. | Anna International Airport | Chennai |
| 20. | Coimbatore Airport | Coimbatore |
| 21. | Tiruchirapalli International Airport | Tiruchirapalli |
| 22. | Chaudhari Charan Singh International Airport | Lucknow |
| 23. | Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport | Varanasi |
| 24. | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport | Kolkata |
| 25. | Biju Patnaik International Airport | Bhubaneshwar |
| 26. | Gaya Airport | Gaya |
| 27. | Pune Airport | Pune |
| 28. | Zaruki International Airport | Shillong |
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