Five more are used as "night parking bays" on the Northern side, next to the old block. This is sufficient to handle the A320 and Boeing 737. These parking bays can well handle flights considering the growth rate over the next three years.
Begumpet Airport was established in the 1930 with the formation of Hyderabad Aero Club. Initially it was exclusively used by the Nizams of Hyderabad. The terminal building was created in 1937. A new terminal building came up on the south side and later became the main airport. The older terminal is now referred to 'Old Airport'. Hyderabad Airport serves a total of 45 destinations. Of them 24 destinations are within the country, and 17 international destinations. Given below is a list of international flights arriving at Hyderabad Airport along their destinations:
- Emirates Airline (Dubai)
- Indian Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, Singapore)
- Air India (Dammam, Mumbai, Singapore, Frankfurt, Chicago-O`Hare, Kuala Lampur, Jeddah, Riyadh, Delhi, Chennai)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Malaysian Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
- Oman Air (Muscat)
- Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait)
The flights that serve national destinations from Hyderabad Airport are:
- Air Deccan (Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Tirupati, Vijaywada,
- Bhubaneshwar, Rajahmundry, Nagpur, Kochi, Coimbatore, Goa, Jaipur, Jodhpur)
- Alliance Air (Visakhapatnam, Bangalore)
- Go Air (Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi)
- Indian (Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Tirupati)
- IndiGo (Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Agartala, Kochi, Jaipur, Goa)
- Jet Lite(Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Coimbatore, Kochi, Nagpur)
- Jet Airways (Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam [begins December 2007])
- SpiceJet (Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Coimbatore)
- Paramount Airways (Visakhapatnam,Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Coimbatore, Thrivananthapuram)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Vishakapatnam, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Vijayawada, Tirupathi, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Chennai, Guwahati, Agartala, Imphal)
Hyderabad International airport, the new airport in Hyderabad city, is located approximately 22 kilometers from the Hyderabad city proper and covers an area of about 5,400 acres. The airport is supposed to have an ultimate capacity of 50 million passengers per annum and is designed to handle the new generation large aircraft such as Airbus A380.
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