List of airports in Uttar Pradesh

This includes a list of airports in Uttar Pradesh. The list includes domestic, training and international airports.

This list contains the following information:

Area served – Town or city where the airport is located. This may not always be an exact location as some airports are situated in the periphery of the town/city they serve.
ICAO – The four letter airport code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization. ICAO codes for India start with VA , VE , VI and VO .
IATA – The three letter airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association
Airport type – Type of airport, including the terminology used by Airports Authority of India, as per the first table below
Airport functional status – Functional status of the airport as per the second table below

Airport type	Description
International	Airport which handles both international and domestic traffic
International (CE)	A civil enclave airport primarily used by Indian Armed Forces but has separate commercial terminal(s) to handle international and domestic traffic
Customs	Airport with customs checking and clearance facility and handles domestic traffic throughout the year. A very limited number of international flights also operate from some of these customs airports for a limited period of time.
Domestic	Airport which handles only domestic traffic
Domestic (CE)	A civil enclave airport primarily used by Indian Armed Forces but has separate commercial terminal(s) to handle domestic traffic
Defence	An airfield under the control of Indian Armed Forces where commercial and private flights do not operate. The ones listed here are apart from Air Force stations, Naval air stations & Air Force training facilities.
Private	An airport, airfield or airstrip owned by individuals, trusts and corporations and are for private use only
Flying school	An airfield or an airstrip used to train commercial pilots

Airport functional status	Description
Operational	Implies airport has active commercial service for public use airports
Non-operational	Implies airport currently has no active commercial service but had or will have commercial service
Closed	Implies airport can no longer be operational for commercial service
Proposed or under construction	Implies airport is proposed or under construction

List

Area served	Airport name	IATA	ICAO	Airport type	Operational	Owned/operated by
Agra	Agra Airport	AGR	VIAG	Domestic (CE)	Operational	MoD and AAI
Aligarh	Aligarh Airport	HRH	VIAH	Domestic	Operational	Govt. of UP and AAI
Ambedkar Nagar	Akbarpur Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Ayodhya	Maharishi Valmiki International Airport	AYJ	VEAY	International	Operational	AAI
Azamgarh	Azamgarh Airport	AZH	VEAH	Domestic	Operational	Govt. of UP and AAI
Bareilly	Bareilly Airport	BEK	VIBY	Domestic (CE)	Operational	MoD and AAI
Chitrakoot	Chitrakoot Airport	CWK	VECT	Domestic	Operational	Govt. of UP and AAI
Etawah	Saifai Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Farrukhabad	Mohammadabad Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Ghaziabad	Hindon Airport	HDO	VIDX	Domestic (CE)	Operational	MoD and AAI
Ghazipur	Andhau Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Gorakhpur	Gorakhpur Airport	GOP	VEGK	Domestic (CE)	Operational	MoD and AAI
Jhansi	Datia Airport (Madhya Pradesh)	—	—	Domestic	Under construction	AAI
Jhansi	Jhansi Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Kanpur	Flight Laboratory, IIT Kanpur	—	—	Flying school	—	IIT Kanpur
Kanpur	Kanpur Airport	KNU	VICX	Domestic (CE)	Operational	MoD and AAI
Kanpur Dehat	Marhamtabad Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Kushinagar	Kushinagar International Airport	KBK	VEKI	International	Operational	AAI
Lakhimpur Kheri	Lakhimpur Kheri Airport	NA	NA	Domestic	Under land acquisition	Govt. of UP
Lalitpur	Lalitpur Airport			Domestic	Under land acquisition	AAI
Lucknow	Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport	LKO	VILK	International	Operational	LIAL
Meerut	Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	AAI
Moradabad	Moradabad Airport	MZS	VIMB	Domestic	Operational	AAI
Noida	Noida International Airport	DXN	VIND	International	Under construction	Zurich Airport AG
Prayagraj	Prayagraj Airport	IXD	VEAB	Domestic (CE)	Operational	MoD and AAI
Raebareli/Amethi	Fursatganj Airfield	—	VERB	Flying school	—	MoCA
Saharanpur	Sarsawa Airport	NA	NA	Domestic (CE)	Under construction	MoD and AAI
Shravasti	Shravasti Airport	VSV	VISV	Domestic	Operational	Govt. of UP and AAI
Sonbhadra	Muirpur Airport	—	VI1D	Domestic	Under construction	Govt. of UP and AAI
Sultanpur	Amhat Airstrip	NA	NA	State/private	—	Govt. of UP
Varanasi	Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport	VNS	VEBN	International	Operational	AAI

LIAL (Lucknow International Airport Limited) is a consortium of Adani Group and AAI.

References

"Airport Authority of India". Aai.aero. 14 January 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
^ "UP govt signs MoU with AAI to operate 5 airports". ANI News. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
^ "MoU Signed for Development of Airports in UP". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
Pankaj Shah (18 January 2021). "Uttar Pradesh aviation to get wings with swanky civil enclaves | Lucknow News – Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.

Sources

"Licensed Aerodromes in India" (PDF). Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India. 10 November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
Airports Authority of India website: AirportsIndia.org.in or AAI.aero
"ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 12 January 2006.
"UN Location Codes: India". UN/LOCODE 2009-1. UNECE. 23 September 2009. - includes IATA codes
Great Circle Mapper - IATA and ICAO codes
List of Indian Air Force Stations at GlobalSecurity.org
scribd - Directory of Airports in India with codes and coordinates
PilotFriend - Indian Airstrips

Airports in India

International

Western India	Ahmedabad Aurangabad Indore Mumbai Nagpur Nashik Pune Rajkot Shirdi Surat Vadodara
Eastern India	Bhubaneswar Gaya Guwahati Imphal Kolkata Patna Siliguri
Northern India	Amritsar Ayodhya Chandigarh Delhi Jaipur Kushinagar Lucknow Srinagar Varanasi
Southern India	Bengaluru Chennai Coimbatore Goa-Dabolim Goa-Mopa Hyderabad Kannur Kochi Kozhikode Madurai Mangalore Port Blair Thiruvananthapuram Tiruchirappalli Tirupati Vijayawada Visakhapatnam
^† Designated as customs airport by AAI; a limited number of international flights are permitted at some of these airports

Domestic/private

Central India

Chhattisgarh	Bhilai Bilaspur Jagdalpur Jashpur Korba Raigharh Raipur
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal Gwalior Jabalpur Khajuraho Panna Satna

Eastern India

Bihar	Darbhanga Munger Muzaffarpur Purnea Raxaul
Jharkhand	Bokaro Chakulia Deoghar Dhanbad Dumka Jamshedpur Ranchi
Odisha	Angul Balangir Barbil Bargarh Berhampur Baripada Bhawanipatna Dhenkanal Jajpur Jeypore Jharsuguda Kendujhar Lanjigarh Nuapada Phulbani Rairangpur Rayagada Rourkela Sambalpur Therubali
West Bengal	Asansol Balurghat Behala Cooch Behar Durgapur Malda Purulia

Northeastern India

Arunachal Pradesh	Along Daporijo Itanagar Pasighat Tezu Ziro
Assam	Dhubri Dibrugarh Jorhat North Lakhimpur Silchar Tezpur
Meghalaya	Shillong Tura
Mizoram	Aizawl
Nagaland	Dimapur
Sikkim	Gangtok
Tripura	Agartala Kamalpur Khowai

Northern India

Haryana	Bhiwani Hisar Karnal Narnaul Pinjore
Himachal Pradesh	Kangra Kullu–Manali Shimla
Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu Kishtwar Poonch Rajouri
Ladakh	Kargil Leh
Punjab	Bathinda Ludhiana Pathankot
Rajasthan	Bikaner Ganganagar Jaisalmer Jhalawar Jodhpur Kishangarh Kota Udaipur
Uttarakhand	Chinyalisaur Dehradun Pantnagar Pithoragarh
Uttar Pradesh	Agra Aligarh Azamgarh Bareilly Chitrakoot Ghaziabad Gorakhpur Kanpur Prayagraj Shravasti

Southern India

Andhra Pradesh	Kadapa Kurnool Nagarjuna Sagar Puttaparthi Rajahmundry
Karnataka	Belgaum Bidar Kalaburagi Hubli Mysore Shivamogga Toranagallu
Lakshadweep	Agatti
Puducherry	Pondicherry
Tamil Nadu	Salem Tuticorin Vellore

Western India

Daman and Diu	Daman Diu
Gujarat	Bhavnagar Bhuj Deesa Jamnagar Kandla Keshod Mehsana Mundra Porbandar
Maharashtra	Aamby Valley Akola Baramati Chandrapur Dhule Hadapsar Jalgaon Karad Kolhapur Latur Mumbai Juhu Nanded Osmanabad Ratnagiri Sindhudurg Solapur Yavatmal

Proposed

International

East	Jamshedpur Puri
North	Ludhiana Mandi Noida
South	Bhogapuram Kottayam Parandur Thiruvambady
West	Dholera Navi Mumbai Purandar, Pune

Domestic

South	Bellary (new) Bijapur Hassan Karaikal Karwar Kothagudem Nellore Nizamabad Ramagundam Warangal
East	Dhamra Kailashahar Kohima Purnea Vuakmual
West	Ankleshwar Chandrapur Kota greenfield
North	Ghazipur Chaukhutia Gauchar Kishtwar Moradabad Meerut Muirpur (Sonbhadra) Palia Raebareli Saharanpur
Central	Ambikapur Datia Lalitpur Rewa

Military

Indian Air Force

Western Air Command	Adampur AFS Ambala AFS Amritsar AFS Awantipur AFS Bathinda AFS Chandigarh AFS Halwara AFS Hindan AFS Leh AFS Palam AFS Pathankot AFS Sarsawa AFS Siachen Glacier AFS Sirsa AFS Srinagar AFS Udhampur AFS
Eastern Air Command	Agartala AFS Bagdogra AFS Barapani AFS Barrackpore AFS Chabua AFS Charbatia AFS Dum Dum AFS Hasimara AFS Jorhat AFS Kalaikunda AFS Kumbhigram AFS Mohanbari AFS Mountain Shadow AFS Panagarh AFS Purnea AFS Tawang AFS Tezpur AFS
Central Air Command	Agra AFS Bakshi Ka Talab AFS Bamrauli AFS Bangarmau AFS Bareilly AFS Bihta AFS Chakeri AFS Darbhanga AFS Gorakhpur AFS Maharajpur AFS
Southern Air Command	Coimbatore AFS Madurai AFS Tambaram AFS Thanjavur AFS
South Western Air Command	Bhuj AFS Jaisalmer AFS Jamnagar AFS Jodhpur AFS Lohegaon AFS Makarpura AFS Nal-Bikaner AFS Naliya AFS Phalodi AFS Suratgarh AFS Uttarlai AFS
Training Command	Begumpet AFS Bidar AFS Dundigal AFS Hakimpet AFS Yelahanka AFS
Maintenance Command	Nagpur AFS Ojhar AFS

Indian Navy

Eastern Naval Command	Arakkonam INS Rajali Uchipuli INS Parundu Visakapatnam INS Dega
Western Naval Command	Dabolim INS Hansa Mumbai INS Shikra
Southern Naval Command	Kochi INS Garuda