Lok Sabha Question No. 3400 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-15
Subject: Take-off/Landing Problem at Airports
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA, ANIL SHIROLE

3400.

- (a) the number of Airports in the country State/UT-wise;
- (c) the details of the number of flights take-offlland daily on these airports;

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3400 (To be answered on the March 2018) Isth

## TAKE-OFFILANDING PROBLEM AT AIRPORTS

SHRI PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASA VA SHRI ANIL SHIROLE PROF RICHARD HAY SHRI GEORGE BAKER

be pleased to state: -

- (b) the number of the airports with heaviest traffic or busiest in the country, State/UT-wise including Gujarat; Maharashtra; Kerala and West Bengal;
- (d) whether the Government is receiving regular complaints regarding takeoffflanding problems at these airports
- (f) whether the Government proposes to give preference of landing o these airports and if sO, the details thereof?
- (e) if s0, the details thereof and the reasons therefor and the measures taken by the Government to deal with these problems; and being

## ANSWER

## Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL A VIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a): Qut of a total of 476 airportslairstrips in the country owned by Defence establishments, Airports Authority of India (AAT), State Governments, Private companies etc , only 129 airports are owned and managed by AAI; The State/UTwise list of AAI's airports is at Annexure-L

(d) & (e): Madam: However, occasional complaints are received which are responded in timely manner. Further, AAI has taken steps to enhance infrastructure such as taxiways, aprons, navigational visual aids, surveillance No,

(b) & (c): 12 airports namely IGI Airport in Delhi, Mumbai in Maharashtra, Bengaluru in Karnataka, Chennai in Tamil Nadu; Kolkata in West Bengal, Hyderabad in Telangana, Cochin in Kerala, Ahmedabad in Gujarat; Goa Airport in Goa, Pune in Maharashtra, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Trivandrum in Kerala are the busiest airport in the country: The details of the number of flights take-offlland daily on these airports during 2016-17 are given at Annexure-II;

(f): Preference of landing is provided for VVIP flights, ambulance flights and emergency flights.

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| AAI AIRPORTS              | AAI AIRPORTS   | AAI AIRPORTS                                  |
|---------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
| STATE/UT                  | S.NO           | STATION                                       |
| ANDHRA PRADESH            | 1              | KADAPAH                                       |
|                           | 2              | DONAKONDA                                     |
|                           | 3              | RAJAMUNDRY                                    |
|                           | 4              |                                               |
|                           | 5              | VIJAYWADA                                     |
|                           | 6              | VISAKHAPATNAMCE)                              |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH         | 7              | DAPARIZO                                      |
|                           | 8              | PASSIGHAT                                     |
|                           | 9              | TEZU                                          |
| ASSAM                     | 10             | DIBRUGARH                                     |
|                           | 11             | GUWAHATI                                      |
|                           | 12             | LILABARI                                      |
|                           | 13             | JORHATICE)                                    |
|                           | 14             | RUPSI                                         |
|                           | 15             | SHELLA                                        |
|                           | 16             | SILCHARICE)                                   |
|                           | 17             | TEZPUR(CE)                                    |
| ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS | 18             | PORT-BLAIR (CE)                               |
| BIHAR                     | 19             | GAYA                                          |
|                           | 20             | JOGBANI                                       |
|                           | 21             | MUZZAFARPUR                                   |
|                           | 22             | PATNA (CUSTOM)                                |
|                           | 23             | RAXAUL                                        |
| CHANDIGARHUT)             | 24             | CHANDIGARH (CE) (CUSTOM                       |
| CHATTISGARH               | 25             | RAIPUR                                        |
|                           | 26             | BILASPUR                                      |
| DELHI                     | 27 28          | NEW DELHI (SAFDARJUNG) IGI AIRPORT, NEW DELHI |
| DAMAN AND DIU (UT)        | 29             | DIU                                           |
| GOA                       | 30             | GOA (CE)                                      |
| GUJARAT                   | 31             | AHMEDABAD                                     |
|                           | 32             | BHAVNAGAR                                     |
|                           | 33             | BHUJCE)                                       |
|                           | 34             | DEESA(PALANPUR)                               |
|                           | 35             | KANDLA                                        |
|                           | 36             | KESHOD                                        |
|                           | 37             | JAMNAGARICE)                                  |
|                           | 38             | PORBANDER                                     |
|                           | 39             | RAJKOT                                        |
|                           | 40             | SURAT                                         |
|                           |                | VADODARA                                      |
|                           | 41             |                                               |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH          | 42             | KANGRA(GAGGAL)                                |
|                           | 44             | SHIMLA                                        |

|                    | AAI AIRPORTS   | AAI AIRPORTS        |
|--------------------|----------------|---------------------|
| STATE/UT           | S.NO_          | STATION             |
| FJHARKHAND         | 45             | CHAKULIA            |
|                    | 46             | RANCHI              |
|                    | 47             | DEOGHAR             |
| JAMMU & KASHMIR    | 48             | JAMMUCE)            |
|                    | 49             | SRINAGAR(CE)        |
|                    | 50             | LEHCE)              |
| KARNATAKA          | 51             | BANGALORE(CE)       |
|                    | 52             | BELGAUM             |
|                    | 53             | HUBLI               |
|                    | 54             | MANGALORE           |
|                    | 55             | MYSORE              |
| KERALA             | 56             | CALICUT             |
|                    | 57             | THIRUVANATHPURAM    |
| LAKSHADWEEP ISLAND | 58             | AGATTI              |
| MADHYA PRADESH     | 59             | BHOPAL              |
|                    | 60             | GWALIOR (CE)        |
|                    | 61             | JABALPUR            |
|                    | 62             | KHAJURAHO           |
|                    | 63             | KHANDWA             |
|                    | 64             | INDORE              |
|                    | 65             | PANNA               |
| MAHARASTRA         | 67             | AKOLA               |
|                    | 68             | AURANGABAD          |
|                    | 69             | GONDIA              |
|                    | 70             | JALGAON             |
|                    | 71             | MUMBAI(JUHU)        |
|                    | 72             | CSI AIRPORT, MUMBAI |
|                    | 73             | KOLHAPUR            |
|                    | 74             | MIHAN; NAGPUR       |
|                    | 75             | PUNE CE)            |
|                    | 76             | SHOLAPUR            |
| MANIPUR            | 77             | IMPHAL              |
| MEGHALAYA          | 78             | SHILLONG (Barapani) |
| MIZORAM            | 79             | AIZAWL(TURIAL)      |
| NAGALAND           | 80 81          | DIMAPUR             |
| ORISSA             |                | BHUBANESWAR         |
|                    | 82             | JHARSUGUDA          |
| PUNJAB             | 83             | AMRITSAR            |
|                    | 84             | BHATINDA(CE)        |
|                    | 85             | LUDHIANA            |
|                    | 87             | ADAMPUR(CE)         |
| PUDUCHERRY         | 88             | PUDUCHERRY          |

|               | AAI AIRPORTS   | AAI AIRPORTS         |
|---------------|----------------|----------------------|
| STATE/UT      | SNO            | STATION              |
| RAJASTHAN     | 89             | BIKANER(NAL) (CE)    |
|               | 90             | JAIPUR               |
|               | 91             | JAISALMER(CE)        |
|               | 92             | JODHPUR(CE)          |
|               | 93             | KOTA                 |
|               | 94             | KISHANGARH           |
| SIKKIM        | 95             | UDAIPUR              |
|               | 96             | PAKYONG              |
|               | 97             | COIMBATORE           |
|               | 98             | CHENNAI              |
|               | 99             | MADURAI              |
|               | 100            | SALEM                |
|               | 101            | TRICHY               |
|               | 102            | TUTICORIN            |
|               | 103            | THANJAVUR (CE)       |
|               | 104            | VELLORE              |
| TELENGANA     | 105            | HYDERABAD (Begumpet) |
|               | 106            | WARANGAL             |
|               | 107            | NADIRGUL             |
| TRIPURA       | 108            | AGARTALA             |
|               | 109            | KAILASHAHAR          |
|               | 110            | KAMALPUR             |
|               | 111            | KHOWAI               |
| UTTAR PRADESH | 112            | AGRAICE)             |
|               | 113            | ALLAHABADICE)        |
|               | 114            | GORAKHPUR(CE)        |
|               | 115            | KANPUR(CHAKERIJCE)   |
|               | 116            | KANPUR(CIVIL)        |
|               | 117            | LALITPUR             |
|               | 118            | LUCKNOW              |
|               | 119            | VARANASI             |
|               | 120            | BAREILLY (CE)        |
| UTTARAKHAND   | 121            | DEHRADUN             |
|               | 122            | PANTNAGAR            |
| WEST BENGAL   | 123            | ASANSOL              |
|               | 124            | BALURGHAT            |
|               | 125            | BAGDOGRA(CE)         |
|               | 126            | BEHALA               |
|               | 127            | COOCH-BEHAR          |
|               | 128            | KOLKATA              |
|               | 129            | MALDA                |

Legend: CE (Civil Enclave)

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## TRAFFIC ETAILS OF 12 BUSIEST AIRPORTS IN THE COUNTRY DURING 2016-17

| AiRPORT             | STATE         |   AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS* |   DAILY AVERAGEOF AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS |
|---------------------|---------------|-----------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 1DELHI (DiAL)       | DELHI         |                417319 |                                 1143 |
| 2MUMBAI (MIAL)      | MAHARASHTRA   |                317473 |                                  870 |
| 3 BANGALORE (BIAL)  | KARNATAKA     |                178165 |                                  488 |
| 4/CHENNAI           | TAMILNADU     |                151967 |                                 4161 |
| sIKOLKATA           | WEST BENGAL   |                128383 |                                  352 |
| 6 HYDERABAD (GHIAL) | TELANGANA     |                133344 |                                  365 |
|                     | KERALA        |                 62837 |                                  172 |
| 8 AHMEDABAD         | GUJARAT       |                 58710 |                                  161 |
|                     | GOA           |                 48548 |                                  133 |
| 10 PUNE             | MAHARASHTRA   |                 50826 |                                  139 |
| 11UCKNOW            | UTTAR PRADESH |                 34637 |                                   95 |
| 12 TRIVANDRUM       | KERALA        |                 29421 |                                   81 |

Note: In Aircraft Movements, landing and take-off of ar aircraft are conunted separately i.e. one landing and one take-off are counted as two movements

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