Ahmedabad Airport is popularly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. It is the busiest airport in Gujarat and the 8th busiest airport in India. Ahmedabad International Airport has separate terminals for international and domestic flights. Both the terminals use the same airside facilities but are physically separated on the landside, requiring a five-minute drive between them. A new international terminal is currently under construction.
Presently, nine domestic airlines and three international airlines are flying from Ahmedabad Airport. Domestic airlines operating from Ahmedabad Airport are Jet Airways, Air India, Alliance Air, Air Deccan, Indian Airlines, Air Sahara, SpiceJet, Kingfisher Airlines, and GoAir. International airlines operating from Ahmedabad Airport include Air India, Indian Airlines, and Singapore Airlines. The airport consists of the international terminal, domestic and cargo terminals. These terminals use the same airside facilities but are physically separated on the landside, requiring a 5 minute drive between them. The airport has 10 parking bays and another 30 are under construction. Currently the airport is undergoing massive renovation on both the domestic and the international terminals.
A new domestic terminal was opened which has doubled the passenger handling capacity than before. The new domestic departure terminal has 20 check-in counters, four aerobridges and three boarding gates. The domestic departure also has a 5-star restaurant on the first-floor, a book shop, a handicrafts store, a retail clothing store and the VIP Lounge on the ground floor and a few snacks counters. The new arrival terminal has three luggage belts, a snack counter, Centrum foreign exchange counter, a pre-paid taxi desk and VIP Lounge.
Ahmedabad Airport