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Indira Gandhi International Airport
Indira Gandhi International Airport (IATA: DEL, ICAO: VIDP) is a large airport in New Delhi, Delhi (National Capital Territory), India. It opened in 1962. It has 4 runways; the longest is 4,430 m (14,534 ft). In 2024 it handled 77.8 million passengers.
Timeline
3 events · 1962–19941962
OpenedIndira Gandhi International Airport opens.
14 JUN 1972
DisasterJapan Airlines Flight 471.82 killed
08 MAR 1994
DisasterQ133213851.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap11R/29L103° / 283° · LIT
LENGTH4,430 m14,534 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
11L/29R103° / 283°
LENGTH4,170 m13,681 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
10/28104° / 284° · LIT
LENGTH3,813 m12,510 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
09/27091° / 271° · LIT
LENGTH2,816 m9,239 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2017–202463.5M
37.1M
65.3M
72.2M
77.8M
1721222324
Routes
168 destinations · 59 countriesYear-round156
HSSMaharaja Agrasen International AirportIndia · Alliance Air149 km93 miDEDDehradun Jolly Grant AirportIndia · IndiGo, Alliance Air, Air India210 km130 miJAIJaipur International AirportIndia · Alliance Air, Air India Express, Air India230 km143 miIXCShaheed Bhagat Singh International AirportIndia · Alliance Air, Air India237 km147 miPGHPantnagar AirportIndia · IndiGo238 km148 miGWLGwalior AirportIndia · IndiGo275 km171 miSLVShimla AirportIndia · Alliance Air281 km175 miBUPBhatinda Air Force StationIndia · Alliance Air296 km184 miVIPGPithoragarh AirportIndia · Alliance Air327 km203 miKUUKullu Manali AirportIndia · Alliance Air369 km229 miBKBNal AirportIndia · IndiGo384 km239 miKNUKanpur AirportIndia · IndiGo405 km252 miDHMKangra AirportIndia · IndiGo, Alliance Air, SpiceJet409 km254 miATQSri Guru Ram Das Ji International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India414 km257 miLKOChaudhary Charan Singh International AirportIndia · Air India Express, Air India424 km263 miJDHJodhpur AirportIndia · Air India Express475 km295 miHJRKhajuraho AirportIndia · IndiGo501 km311 miIXJJammu AirportIndia · Air India Express, SpiceJet508 km316 miAYJMaharshi Valmiki International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express538 km334 miUDRMaharana Pratap AirportIndia · Air India Express, Air India541 km336 miIXDPrayagraj AirportIndia · Alliance Air, Air India575 km357 miBHORaja Bhoj International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India586 km364 miIXLLeh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee AirportIndia · Air India, SpiceJet622 km386 miJSAJaisalmer AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India641 km398 miSXRSrinagar International AirportIndia · Akasa Air, Air India Express, Air India643 km400 miGOPGorakhpur AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Alliance Air +1658 km409 miIDRDevi Ahilya Bai Holkar International AirportIndia · Alliance Air, Air India662 km411 miJLRJabalpur AirportIndia · Alliance Air667 km414 miVNSLal Bahadur Shastri International AirportIndia · Air India Express, Air India, SpiceJet667 km414 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Akasa Air, Air India, SpiceJet755 km469 miBDQVadodara International AirportIndia · Air India793 km493 miKTMTribhuvan International AirportNepal · IndiGo, Bhutan Airlines, Nepal Airlines +1816 km507 miNAGDr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International AirportIndia · Air India853 km530 miPATJay Prakash Narayan AirportIndia · Air India Express, Air India, SpiceJet857 km533 miAHAMaa Mahamaya AirportIndia · Alliance Air869 km540 miPABBilaspur AirportIndia · Alliance Air887 km551 miGAYGaya AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India888 km552 miDBRDarbhanga AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, SpiceJet910 km565 miHSRRajkot International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India917 km570 miSTVSurat International AirportIndia · Air India Express936 km582 miRPRSwami Vivekananda AirportIndia · Air India944 km587 miBHJBhuj AirportIndia · Air India945 km587 miIXUAurangabad AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India982 km610 miISKNashik International AirportIndia · IndiGo992 km616 miNMBDaman AirportIndia · Alliance Air1,000 km621 miKBLKabul International AirportAfghanistan · Kam Air, Ariana Afghan Airlines1,002 km623 miIXRBirsa Munda AirportIndia · Air India Express1,008 km626 miJRGJharsuguda AirportIndia · IndiGo1,017 km632 miDGHDeoghar AirportIndia · IndiGo1,059 km658 miPurnea AirportIndia · IndiGo1,066 km662 miIXBBagdogra AirportIndia · Akasa Air, Air India Express, SpiceJet1,126 km700 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express +21,137 km706 miNMINavi Mumbai International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express1,140 km708 miRDPKazi Nazrul Islam AirportIndia · IndiGo1,152 km716 miPNQPune International AirportIndia · Akasa Air, Air India Express, Air India +11,155 km718 miPBHParo International AirportBhutan · Drukair1,217 km756 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · Akasa Air, Air India1,267 km787 miBBIBiju Patnaik International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India1,277 km793 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Akasa Air, Air India, SpiceJet1,313 km816 miVTZAlluri Sitarama Raju International Airport (Vizag)India · Akasa Air, Air India1,346 km836 miDYUDushanbe International AirportTajikistan · Somon Air1,348 km838 miVGAVijayawada International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India1,390 km864 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · IndiGo, Air India1,426 km886 miIXGBelagavi AirportIndia · IndiGo1,434 km891 miGAULokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India +11,456 km905 miGOXManohar International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express +11,463 km909 miNMANamangan International AirportUzbekistan · Uzbekistan Airways1,471 km914 miHBXHubballi AirportIndia · IndiGo1,482 km921 miGOIGoa Dabolim International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India1,503 km934 miSHLShillong AirportIndia · SpiceJet1,506 km936 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Centrum Air, FlyOne, Uzbekistan Airways1,580 km982 miBSZManas International AirportKyrgyzstan · Aero Nomad Airlines1,630 km1,013 miHGIItanagar Donyi Polo Hollongi AirportIndia · IndiGo1,636 km1,017 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana1,646 km1,023 miDMUDimapur AirportIndia · IndiGo1,674 km1,040 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express +21,709 km1,062 miIMFBir Tikendrajit International AirportIndia · Air India Express1,720 km1,069 miIXEMangaluru International AirportIndia · Air India Express1,750 km1,087 miMAAChennai International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India1,760 km1,094 miDIBDibrugarh AirportIndia · IndiGo1,762 km1,095 miCNNKannur International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,857 km1,154 miCJBCoimbatore International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India1,949 km1,211 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air1,955 km1,215 miTRZTiruchirappalli International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,986 km1,234 miASBAshgabat International AirportTurkmenistan · Turkmenistan Airlines2,027 km1,260 miCOKCochin International AirportIndia · Air India Express, Air India2,048 km1,273 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia, Air India Express2,166 km1,346 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, IndiGo, Emirates +12,182 km1,356 miTRVThiruvananthapuram International AirportIndia · Air India2,232 km1,387 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways, Air India Express2,276 km1,414 miRGNYangon International AirportMyanmar (Burma) · Air India2,338 km1,453 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · IndiGo, Air India, SriLankan Airlines2,395 km1,488 miIXZVeer Savarkar International Airport / INS UtkroshIndia · Air India Express, Air India2,485 km1,544 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · IndiGo, Qatar Airways, Air India2,548 km1,583 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Mahan Air2,554 km1,587 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air2,619 km1,627 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · IndiGo, Air India Express2,696 km1,675 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Air India2,735 km1,699 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · IndiGo, Azerbaijan Airlines2,794 km1,736 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · IndiGo, Jazeera Airways, Air India Express +12,829 km1,758 miBSRBasra International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways2,848 km1,770 miDMKDon Mueang International AirportThailand · Thai Lion Air, Thai AirAsia X2,921 km1,815 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · IndiGo, Air India2,949 km1,832 miHANNoi Bai International AirportVietnam · IndiGo, Vietnam Airlines, Air India +13,000 km1,864 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · IndiGo, Flynas, Saudia +13,036 km1,886 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Iraqi Airways3,165 km1,967 miHKTPhuket International AirportThailand · IndiGo, Air India3,179 km1,975 miKBVKrabi International AirportThailand · IndiGo3,230 km2,007 miSVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Ural Airlines3,386 km2,104 miPNHPhnom Penh International AirportCambodia · Air Cambodia3,446 km2,141 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · IndiGo, China Southern Airlines3,650 km2,268 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · Vietnam Airlines, Air India, VietJet Air3,652 km2,269 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · IndiGo, Cathay Pacific, Air India3,747 km2,328 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Air China3,811 km2,368 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia X, Batik Air Malaysia +13,877 km2,409 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · IndiGo, Saudia, Air India3,879 km2,410 miAMMQueen Alia International AirportJordan · Royal Jordanian3,945 km2,451 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Air India4,046 km2,514 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · IndiGo, Singapore Airlines, Air India4,159 km2,584 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, Air India4,293 km2,668 miSVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Aeroflot4,366 km2,713 miTPETaiwan Taoyuan International AirportTaiwan · EVA Air4,373 km2,717 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir4,404 km2,737 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines4,551 km2,828 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · IndiGo4,567 km2,838 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air, Air India4,654 km2,892 miMNLNinoy Aquino International AirportPhilippines · Air India4,773 km2,966 miMSQMinsk National AirportBelarus · Belavia4,837 km3,006 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · IndiGo4,984 km3,097 miHELHelsinki Vantaa AirportFinland · Finnair5,224 km3,246 miWAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines5,263 km3,270 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Air India5,546 km3,446 miDPSDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International AirportIndonesia · IndiGo, Air India5,822 km3,618 miMRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Air Mauritius5,832 km3,624 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Air India5,840 km3,629 miHNDTokyo Haneda International AirportJapan · All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Air India5,862 km3,642 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Lufthansa5,900 km3,666 miNRTNarita International AirportJapan · Japan Airlines5,910 km3,672 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · ITA Airways, Air India5,932 km3,686 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Air India, Lufthansa6,122 km3,804 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Air India6,148 km3,820 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Air India6,158 km3,826 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM, Air India6,364 km3,954 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France, Air India6,565 km4,079 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · IndiGo, Virgin Atlantic, Air India +16,731 km4,182 miBHXBirmingham AirportUnited Kingdom · Air India6,799 km4,225 miALGHouari Boumediene AirportAlgeria · Air Algérie6,809 km4,231 miMANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · IndiGo6,817 km4,236 miMELMelbourne AirportAustralia · Qantas Airways, Air India10,191 km6,332 miSYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · Air India10,435 km6,484 miYVRVancouver International AirportCanada · Air India11,139 km6,921 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada, Air India11,640 km7,233 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · American Airlines, Air India11,755 km7,304 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines, Air India11,765 km7,310 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Air India12,022 km7,470 miSFOSan Francisco International AirportUnited States · Air India12,382 km7,694 miSeasonal1
YULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada11,272 km7,004 miCargo24
IXLLeh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee AirportIndia · SpiceJet622 km386 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation755 km469 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,137 km706 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,267 km787 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,313 km816 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · IndiGo, Blue Dart Aviation1,709 km1,062 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Astral Aviation2,166 km1,346 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · UPS Airlines2,182 km1,356 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · FedEx Express2,213 km1,375 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways2,548 km1,583 miCTUChengdu Shuangliu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines, SF Airlines2,601 km1,616 miKWEGuiyang Longdongbao International AirportChina · Tianjin Air Cargo2,930 km1,821 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Air Central3,526 km2,191 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · SF Airlines, FedEx Express3,650 km2,268 miEHUEzhou Huahu International AirportChina · SF Airlines3,662 km2,275 miZUHZhuhai Jinwan AirportChina · SF Airlines3,705 km2,302 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · UPS Airlines, SF Airlines3,725 km2,315 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Hong Kong Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Atlas Air3,747 km2,328 miTPETaiwan Taoyuan International AirportTaiwan · UPS Airlines4,373 km2,717 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air4,654 km2,892 miLEJLeipzig/Halle AirportGermany · AeroLogic5,857 km3,639 miCGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · UPS Airlines6,214 km3,861 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · China Airlines6,293 km3,910 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Emirates SkyCargo6,400 km3,977 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DEL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Indira Gandhi International Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
84 airlines · destinations from DELPassenger68
6EIndiGo60IXAir India Express31SGSpiceJet15QPAkasa Air14ACAir Canada2IAIraqi Airways2JLJapan Airlines2LHLufthansa2SVSaudia2HYUzbekistan Airways2VJVietJet Air2VNVietnam Airlines2—Aero Nomad Airlines1SUAeroflot1AHAir Algérie1G9Air Arabia1KCAir Astana1K6Air Cambodia1CAAir China1AFAir France1MKAir Mauritius1D7AirAsia X1NHAll Nippon Airways1AAAmerican Airlines1FGAriana Afghan Airlines1J2Azerbaijan Airlines1ODBatik Air Malaysia1B2Belavia1B3Bhutan Airlines1BABritish Airways1CXCathay Pacific1C6Centrum Air1MUChina Eastern Airlines1CZChina Southern Airlines1KBDrukair1MSEgyptAir1EKEmirates1ETEthiopian Airlines1EYEtihad Airways1BREVA Air1AYFinnair1FZflydubai1XYFlynas15FFlyOne1GFGulf Air1AZITA Airways1J9Jazeera Airways1RQKam Air1KLKLM1KEKorean Air1KUKuwait Airways1LOLOT Polish Airlines1W5Mahan Air1MHMalaysia Airlines1RANepal Airlines1WYOman Air1QFQantas Airways1QRQatar Airways1RJRoyal Jordanian1SQSingapore Airlines1SZSomon Air1ULSriLankan Airlines1XJThai AirAsia X1SLThai Lion Air1T5Turkmenistan Airlines1UAUnited Airlines1U6Ural Airlines1VSVirgin Atlantic1Former hub of Air India Cargo, Aryan Cargo Express, Hinduja Cargo Services, Jet Airways, JetLite, Kingfisher Airlines, MDLR Airlines and ModiLuft.
Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from DEL. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
10 channelsAPPDELHI APP126.350
ATISATIS126.400
GNDDELHI GND121.900
TWRDELHI TWR rwy28/10118.100
TWRDELHI TWR RWY 29/11118.250
AREA CONTROL (E)DELHI CONTROL120.900
AREA CONTROL (W)DELHI CONTROL124.550
TWRDELHI TWR Rwy 27/09118.750
CLDClearance Delivery121.950
GNDSMC121.625