List of Main Airports in Uttar Pradesh
Airport Authority of India' is responsible for the development of civil aviation infrastructure in India. In India, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) monitors and regulates the internal and external air traffic of the country.
Currently India has 27 International Airports out of which 26 are operational while the numbers of custom airports are 8. At present, there are a total of 138 airports in India, out of which only 108 are operational and 30 are non-operational.
If we talk about the numbers of airports in the Uttar Pradesh then the picture is not much encouraging. There are just 2 International Airports in the Uttar Pradesh i.e.Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Lucknow and Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Varanasi and the third International Airport of the state at Taj International Airport, Greater Noida is under the construction.
In this article, we are publishing the list of all International and domestic airports in Uttar Pradesh.
| S.N. |
Airport Name |
Location |
| 1. |
Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (Amausi Airport) |
Lucknow |
| 2. |
Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (Babatpur Airport) |
Varanasi |
| 3. |
Bamrauli Airport |
Allahabad |
| 4. |
Chakeri Airport |
Kanpur |
| 5. |
Civil Airport |
Kanpur |
| 6. |
Kheria Airport |
Agra |
| 7. |
Sarvasa Airport |
Saharanpur |
| 8. |
Hindon Airport |
Ghaziabad |
| 9. |
Faizabad Airport |
Faizabad |
| 10. |
Jewer Airport (under construction) |
Gautam Buddha Nagar |
| 11. |
Lalitpur Airport |
Lalitpur |
| 12. |
Jhansi Airport |
Jhansi |
| 13. |
Gorakhpur Airport |
Gorakhpur |
| 14. |
Taj International Airport |
Greater Noida |
| 15. |
IIT Kanpur (Kalyanpur Airport) |
Kanpur |
| 16. |
Bareilly Airport |
Bareilly |
| 17. |
B. R. Ambedkar Airport |
Meerut |
| 18. |
Kushinagar Airport (proposed) |
Kushinagar |
In addition to the airports given above, Indira Gandhi National Aviation Academy in Uttar Pradesh is located in Fursatganj of Rae Bareli. Aditya Birla Group has developed a private airport in Sonbhadra (Myorpur). Worthy to mention that road transportation is still the most popular road in the means of transportation in the state.
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