Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
airport near Hyderabad, India
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (IATA: HYD, ICAO: VOHS) is an international airport that serves Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad, about 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Hyderabad and it was opened on 23 March 2008 to replace Begumpet Airport, which was till then the sole civilian airport serving Hyderabad. It is owned and operated by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), a public–private consortium. It was the first airport in India to launch domestic e-boarding facility in December 2015, followed with international e-boarding facility in October 2020, and ranked in AirHelp's list of top 10 airports in the world. The fourth-busiest airport in India by passenger traffic, it handled over 29 million passengers and over 167,660 tonnes (184,810 short tons) of cargo between April 2024 and March 2025.
It was named after Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India. Built over an area of 2,200 hectares (5,500 acres), it is the largest airport of India by area. The airport has an integrated passenger terminal, a cargo terminal and two runways. There are also aviation training facilities, a fuel farm, a solar power plant and two maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) facilities.
History
Planning (1991–2004)
The existing commercial airport, Begumpet Airport, was unable to handle rising passenger traffic.
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