GK Notes on Air Transport in India

Air Transport

• JRD Tata was the first person to take a solo flight form Mumbai to Karachi in 1931.
• In 1935, the ‘Tata Air Lines’ started its operation between Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram and in 1937 between Mumbai and Delhi.
• In 1953, all the private airline companies were nationalized and Indian Airlines and Air India came into existence.
• Vayudoot Limited started in 1981 as a private air carrier and later on it merged with Indian Airlines.
• International  Airports Authority of India and National Airports Authority were merged on 1995 to form Airports Authority of India.
• The Authority manages the Civil Aviation Training College at Allahabad and National Institute of Aviation Management and Research at Delhi.

12 International Airports in India

• Rajiv Gandhi International Airport – Hyderabad
• Calicut International Airport – Calicut
• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport- Mumbai
• Kempe Gowda International Airport –Bengaluru
• Goa Airport in Vasco di Gama city- Goa
• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport – Kolkata
• Thiruvananthapuram International Airport – Thiruvananthapuram
• Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport – Guwahati
• Sardar Vallabbhbhai Patel International Airport – Ahmedabad
• Indira Gandhi International Airport – Delhi
• Chennai International Airport – Chennai
• Shri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport – Amritsar