| AIRPORT CLASSIFICATION
Airports are presently classified in the following manner:
- International Airports: - These are declared as international
airports and are available for scheduled international operations
by Indian and foreign carriers. Presently, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai,
Calcutta and Thiruvananthapuram are in this category.
- Domestic Airports:
-
Customs Airports with limited international operations:
- These have customs and immigration facilities for limited
international operations by national carriers and for foreign
tourist and cargo charter flights. These include Bangalore
(CE), Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Calicut, Goa (CE), Varanasi, Patna,
Agra (CE), Jaipur, Amritsar, Tiruchirapally, Coimbatore, Lucknow.
(CE - Civil Enclave)
-
Model Airports:- These domestic airports have minimum runway
length of 7500 feet and adequate terminal capacity (400 passengers
or more) to handle Airbus 320 type of aircraft. These can
cater to limited international traffic also, if required.
These include Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Nagpur, Vadodara, Imphal
and Indore. Rest 6 Nos. of airports, developed under Model
Airports concept have graduated to the classification of Customs
Airports, given above.
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Other Domestic Airports:- All other 71 domestic airports
are covered in this category.
-
Civil Enclaves in Defence Airport:- There are 28 civil enclaves
in Defence airfields. Twenty civil enclaves are in operation.
AIRCRAFT HANDLING CAPABILITIES IN TERMS OF HANDLING
MAXIMUM SIZE OF AIRCRAFT
| Type of Aircraft |
No. of Airports (120) |
| |
Capable |
Being Planned/ Developed |
| B-747
(350-450 seater) |
Calcutta, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, *Bangalore,
Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin (CIAL) (7) |
Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Guwahati (3) |
| AB-300
(250-275 seater) |
Ahmedabad, *Amritsar, Goa (CE), Guwahati,
Hyderabad, *Nagpur, Srinagar, *Lucknow, Calicut (9) |
Aurangabad, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Calicut,
Coimbatore, Jaipur, Lucknow (7) |
| AB-320
(150-170 seater) |
Agra (CE), *Agartala, Aurangabad, Bagdogra
(CE), Bhubaneswar, Bhuj (CE), Bhopal, *Bhavnagar, Calicut,
Coimbatore, Chandigarh (CE), *Dibrugarh, Indore, Gwalior
(CE), Imphal, Jaipur, Jamnagar (CE), Jorhat (CE), Lucknow,
*Patna, Pune (CE), Ranchi, *Trichy, Tirupati, Tezpur (CE),
Udaipur, Varanasi, Vadodara, Leh (29) |
Jammu (CE), Lilabari, Mangalore, Madurai,
Port Blair (CE), Trichy, Dimapur, Raipur, Silchar, Khajuraho
(10) |
| B-737
(100-168 seater) |
Allahabad (CE), Bikaner (CE), Cochin (CE),
Gorakhpur (CE), Jaisalmer (CE), Jamnagar (CE), Jammu (CE),
Kanpur (Chakeri - CE), Khajuraho, Madurai, Raipur, *Mangalore,
Port Blair (CE), *Rajkot, Salem, Silchar (CE), Vizag (CE),
Dimapur , Jabalpur, Lengpui - New Airport (20) |
Vijayawada (1) |
| F-27/ATR 42-72
(45-68 seater) |
Barapani, Belgum, Gaya, Hubli, Jharsuguda,
Kamalpur, Kolhapur, Kandla, Lalitpur, Keshod, Lilabari,
Ludhiana, Porbander, Rajamundry, Sholapur, Tuticorin, Tezu,
Vijayawada, Warangal (19) |
Gaggal (1) |
| Dornier-228
(18 seater) |
Aizawl, Akola, Along (CE), Balurghat, Bilaspur,
Cooch-Behar, Cuddapa, Daparizo (CE), Dehradun, Deesa, Gaggal,
Jhansi, Kota, Kailashhar, Kanpur, Kullu, Malda, Muzzaffarpur,
Mysore, Passighat, Pantnagar, Pondichery, Satna, Shimla,
Zero (25) |
Kargil, Tura (New Airport) (2) |
| Pushpak Type |
Behala, Juhu, Safdarjung, Nadirgul, Donakonda,
Vellore (6) |
- |
| Not Available for Operation |
Jogbani (DC-3), Khandwa (DC-3), Khowai (DC-3),
Chakulia (F-27), Panna (DC-3), Raxaul (DC-3), Shella (DC-3)
Asansol (DC-3), Rupsi (9) |
| Legend |
CE = Civil Enclave
(*) = Restricted/load penalty operation |
Details of Ground Lighting System at major Indian
Civil Airports
| Sl.No |
Name of Airport |
Length of main runway in
feet |
Runway Edge Lighting |
PAPI/ VASI |
Approach Lighting |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1 |
AGARTALA |
6000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 18 ) |
SAPL ( 36 ) |
| 2 |
AHEMADABAD |
9000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 23 ) |
SAPL ( 05 ) |
| 3 |
AMRITSAR |
9150 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
ASAPL ( 16 ) |
N.A |
| 4 |
AURANGABAD |
7500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 27 ) |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
| 5 |
BANGALORE |
10850 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 27 ) |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
| 6 |
BHAVNAGAR |
6300 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A |
SAPL ( 25 ) |
| 7 |
BHOPAL |
6700 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
ASAPL ( 12 ) |
ASAPL ( 30 ) |
| 8 |
BHUBANESHWAR |
9000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
ASAPL ( 32 ) |
N.A |
| 9 |
CALCUTTA |
11900 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 01) |
CAT I ( 19 ) |
| 10 |
CALICUT |
6000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
ASAPL ( 10 ) |
ASAPL ( 28 ) |
| 11 |
CHENNAI |
10500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 07 ) |
SAPL ( 25 ) |
| 12 |
COIMBATORE |
7500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 23 ) |
SAPL ( 05 ) |
| 13 |
DELHI |
12500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT II ( 10 ) |
CAT I ( 28 ) |
| 14 |
DIBRUGARH |
6000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A |
SAPL ( 05 ) |
| 15 |
DIMAPUR |
7500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 30 ) |
SAPL ( 12 ) |
| 16 |
GUWAHATI |
9000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 20 ) |
SAPL ( 02 ) |
| 17 |
HYDERABAD |
9080 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 27 ) |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
| 18 |
IMPHAL |
9000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 04 ) |
SAPL ( 22 ) |
| 19 |
INDORE |
7500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A |
N.A |
| 20 |
JAIPUR |
7500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A. |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
| 21 |
KHAJURAHO |
6000 |
HIRL |
VASI |
ASAPL ( 19 ) |
N.A |
| 22 |
LUCKNOW |
7835 |
HIRL |
AVASI |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
SAPL ( 27 ) |
| 23 |
MADURAI |
5990 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A |
N.A |
| 24 |
MANGALORE |
5800 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A |
N.A |
| 25 |
MUMBAI |
11450 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT II ( 27 ) |
CAT 1 ( 09 ) |
| 26 |
NAGPUR |
10500 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
CAT I ( 32 ) |
SAPL ( 14 ) |
| 27 |
PATNA |
6350 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
ASAPL |
SAPL ( 07 ) |
| 28 |
RAIPUR |
6100 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
N.A |
N.A |
| 29 |
RAJKOT |
5400 |
HIRL |
AVASI |
SAPL ( 23 ) |
SAPL ( 05 ) |
| 30 |
RANCHI |
8900 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 13 ) |
ASAPL ( 31 ) |
| 31 |
TRICHY |
6115 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
SAPL ( 27 ) |
| 32 |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM |
9997 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 14 ) |
SAPL ( 32 ) |
| 33 |
TIRUPATHI |
7500 |
N.A |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 08 ) |
SAPL ( 26 ) |
| 34 |
UDAIPUR |
6000 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 08 ) |
N.A |
| 35 |
VADODARA |
8100 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 22 ) |
SAPL ( 04 ) |
| 36 |
VARANASI |
7236 |
HIRL |
PAPI |
SAPL ( 09 ) |
ASAPL ( 27 ) |
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| LEGEND : |
HIRL : HIGH INTENSITY RUNWAY LIGHTING
SYSTEM |
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PAPI : PRECISION APPROCH PATH INDICATOR |
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SAPL : SIMPLE APPROCH LIGHTING SYSTEM |
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CAT I : CATEGORY I APPROCH LIGHTING
SYSTEM |
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VASI : VISUAL APPROCH SLOP INDICATOR
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N.A : PARTICULAR FACILITY NOT AVAILABLE |
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( 08 ) / ( 26 ) : INDICATES THE APPROCH
END OF RUNWAY |
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ASAPL : ABRIDGED SIMPLE APPROCH LIGHTING
SYSTEM |
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Source:
Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airports Authority of India
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