Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport

Introduction

The Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) serves Delhi and is one of the busiest airports in southern Asia and the biggest in India itself. Recently, it has improved a lot and has become bigger, safer and more convenient.

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

Getting there and away

The airport is connected to Delhi by the Delhi Airport Metro Express train line and the 8-lane Delhi Gurgaon Expressway. Low floor buses regularly run between the airport and the city. DTC operates several buses to the airport. Prepaid taxis are also available from the terminal to all areas of Delhi.
The Delhi Mass Rapid Transit System will connect the new Terminal 3 with Delhi city.

Getting around

There are regular shuttle buses between the international and domestic terminals.

Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

Currently, there are 2 terminals in use, but the third one will be in use before the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which are to be held in Delhi in October. For now, Terminal 1 is the domestic terminal, Terminal 2 the international one. For more information about airlines, also visit the budget airlines and list of airlines articles.

Terminal 1

• Air India Regional - Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Chennai, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Kozhikode, Kulu, Mangalore, Pathankot, Surat, Udaipur, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam
• GoAir - Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Goa, Guwahati, Indore, Jammu, Kochi, Mumbai, Nanded, Srinagar
• Indian Airlines - Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Jodhpur, Khajuraho, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Leh, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Tirupati, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Varanasi
• IndiGo - Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Dibrugarh, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Srinagar, Vadodara
• Jagson Airlines - Chandigarh, Dharamsala, Kulu, Pantnagar, Shimla
• Jet Airways - Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Khajuraho, Kochi, Kolkata, Leh, Mumbai, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi
• JetLite - Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dibrugarh, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Port Blair, Pune, Srinagar, Visakhapatnam
• Kingfisher Airlines - Agra, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Dharamsala, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jodhpur, Khajuraho, Kochi, Kolkata, Kulu, Leh, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Pathankot, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Simla, Srinagar, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Varanasi
• SpiceJet - Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbi, Pune, Srinagar, Varanasi, Visakhapatnam

Terminal 2

• Aeroflot - Moscow-Sheremetyevo
• Aerosvit Airlines - Kiev-Boryspil
• Air Arabia - Sharjah
• Air Astana - Almaty
• Air China - Beijng-Capital
• Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
• Air India - Dammam, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jeddah, London-Heathrow, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson
• Air India operated by Indian Airlines - Abu Dhabi, Amritsar, Dubai, Kolkata, Singapore
• Air-India Express - Abu Dhabi, Amritsar, Bahrain, Doha, Mumbai, Muscat
• Air India Regional - Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Chennai, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Kozhikode, Kulu,
• Air Mauritius - Mauritius
• AirAsia X - Kuala Lumpur
• American Airlines - Chicago-O'Hare
• Ariana Afghan Airlines - Kabul
• Armavia - Yerevan
• Asiana Airlines - Seoul-Incheon
• Austrian Airlines - Vienna
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines - Dhaka
• British Airways - London-Heathrow
• Cathay Pacific Airways - Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Hong Kong
• China Airlines - Rome-Fiumicino, Taipei-Taoyuan
• China Eastern Airlines - Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong
• China Southern Airlines - Guangzhou
• Continental Airlines - Newark
• Druk Air - Kathmandu, Paro
• Emirates - Dubai
• Ethiopian Airlines - Addis Ababa, Beijing-Capital
• Etihad Airways - Abu Dhabi
• Finnair - Helsinki
• GMG Airlines - Dhaka, Dubai
• Gulf Air - Bahrain
• Indian Airlines - Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Kabul, Kathmandu, Muscat
• JALways operated by Japan Airlines - Tokyo-Narita
• Jet Airways - Abu Dhabi, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Brussels, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kathmandu, London-Heathrow, Singapore, Toronto-Pearson
• JetLite - Kathmandu
• Kam Air - Kabul
• Kingfisher Airlines - Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kathmandu, London-Heathrow
• KLM - Amsterdam
• Kuwait Airways - Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan Airlines - Bishkek
• Lufthansa - Frankfurt, Munich
• Mahan Air - Tehran-Imam Khomeini
• Malaysia Airlines - Kuala Lumpur
• Nas Air - Riyadh
• Nepal Airlines - Kathmandu
• Oman Air - Muscat
• Pakistan International Airlines - Karachi, Lahore
• Pamir Airways - Kabul
• Qatar Airways - Doha
• Royal Jordanian - Amman
• Safi Airways - Kabul
• Saudi Arabian Airlines - Dammam, Riyadh
• Singapore Airlines - Singapore
• Sri Lankan Airlines - Colombo
• Swiss International Airlines - Zürich
• Thai Airways International - Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
• Turkish Airlines - Istanbul-Atatürk
• Turkmenistan Airlines - Ashgabat
• United Airways - Dhaka
• Uzbekistan Airways - Tashkent
• Virgin Atlantic Airways - London-Heathrow

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