Among the busiest airports in India, the Indira Gandhi International Airport which serves as the primary civilian aviation hub for the National Capital Region of Delhi,[31] is the busiest airport in the country in terms of passenger traffic and international traffic busiest airport in India since 2009 and the second busiest airport in the country in terms of cargo traffic after Mumbai.[32] With the commencement of operations at Terminal 3 in 2010, it became India's and South Asia's largest aviation hub, with a current capacity of handling more than 40 million passengers, which will go up to 100 million passengers by 2030 with the planned expansion.[33] It was 12th busiest airports in Asia (2014) and 21st busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic (2016).
Several Integrated Aviation-industrial parks, for aerospace training, research, manufacturing, Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) and Fixed-base Operations(FBO) integrated international aviation hub and aerospace industrial hub, are in the process of being setup, such as in Hisar[34][35][36] and Gujarat.[37]
There are a total of 22 airlines which are operational in India, including Air India and Pawan Hans PSUs, listed companies (SpiceJet, IndiGo Airlines, Jet Lite, Air India Express and Jet Airways) and private airlines (such as GoAir, Air Asia, Vistara and IndiGo) (c. 2015). Number of civil aviation aircraft in operation for the scheduled commercial flights jumped 38% to 548 in December 2017 from 395 in 2014 and 50 aircraft are being added every year.[29]
In September 2018, Civil Aviation Minister said that as many as 100 new airports would be built in the next 10 to 15 years for about $60 billion to meet the growing domestic air travel demand.
