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Begumpet Airport (IATA: HYD, ICAO: VOHY) at Hyderabad, also known as Hyderabad Airport, is currently the only international airport in Andhra Pradesh. It is a civil enclave located in Begumpet. The airport is host to the Andhra Pradesh Aviation Academy and the Begumpet Air Force Station of the Indian Air Force as well.

Begumpet airport provides two check-in terminals; Rajiv Gandhi International and NTR National with a common arrival module. The airport handles both international and domestic traffic for Hyderabad and is the 6th busiest airport in India. It is the largest hub of Air Sahara with 126 flights.

Begumpet airport currently has 13 parking bays in operation around the new terminal block and five more are used as "night parking bays" on the Northern side, next to the old block. This is sufficient to handle the A 320 and Boeing 737. These parking bays can comfortably handle flights considering the growth rate over the next three years,

By that time the airport will be replaced by Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in March, 2008. Once this new airport becomes operational, Begumpet, which is located in the heart of the Hyderabad metropolitan area, would be used for military aviation training and for flights carrying VIPs^{[citation needed]}. The Leftist political parties have made strong representations to the civil aviation ministry to allow Begumpet airport to continue to be used for low cost civil aviation purposes for which it seems ideally suited. The Civil Aviation Ministry has put the proposal of starting an ATC training centre in the Begumpet Airport.

Currently, the airport has limited night landing facilities and only 40% of Andhra Pradesh's international traffic flows through the airport, due to lack of direct flights.^[1] President George W. Bush's Air Force One landed and took off from Begumpet during his visit to Hyderabad in early 2006. Begumpet airport's capacity has reportedly been exceeded in both domestic and international areas due to the rate of growth in passenger traffic, estimated at 45% p.a., last year, the highest among Indian airports. Begumpet Airport handles 20,000 passengers daily with 250 aircraft movements of 16 international and 10 domestic airlines. This implies that Begumpet's capacity endowment was more than expected to start with or it has fine tuned its slot control regime to cope better with demand. All this raises questions about the actual use to which the IAF puts this base and why it cannot be kept open in future.

The state government has great hopes of establishing new airports in 8 towns and connecting them to Hyderabad and other existing airports.

Begumpet Airport was established in the 1930s with formation of Hyderabad Aero Club. Initially it was used by Nizam of Hyderabad. The terminal building was created in 1937.^[2]. A new terminal building came up on the south side and later became the main airport. The older terminal hitherto was referred to as 'Old Airport'.

The airport serves 24 destinations within the country, and 17 international destinations, bringing the total to 45 destinations.

• Air India (Dammam, Mumbai, Singapore, Frankfurt, Chicago-O`Hare, Kuala Lampur, Jeddah, Riyadh, Delhi, Chennai)
• Emirates Airline (Dubai)
• Indian Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dubai, Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, Singapore)
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Malaysian Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
• Oman Air (Muscat)
• Qatar Airways (Doha)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
• Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
• Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo)
• Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
• Kuwait Airways (Kuwait)

• Air Deccan (Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Tirupati, Vijaywada, Bhubaneshwar, Rajahmundry, Nagpur, Kochi, Coimbatore, Goa, Jaipur, Jodhpur)
• Jet Lite(Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Coimbatore, Kochi, Nagpur)
• 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 Airways (Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam [begins December 2007])
• Kingfisher Airlines (Vishakapatnam, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Vijayawada, Tirupathi, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Chennai, Guwahati, Agartala, Imphal)
• Paramount Airways (Visakhapatnam,Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Coimbatore, Thrivananthapuram)
• SpiceJet (Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Coimbatore)

• New Hyderabad Airport

Hyderabad International Airport is located approximately 22km from Hyderabad city on a 5,400 acre site. It will have an ultimate capacity of 50 million passengers per annum and is designed to handle the new generation of large aircraft including the Airbus A380. The modular design of the airport will allow incremental expansion of each area without major rebuilding or operational disruption.

The city of Hyderabad is a natural aviation hub, owing to its strategic location on the map of India. It is connected to all major Indian airports within two hours flying time. Internationally too Hyderabad makes an ideal stopover or transit point for flights from west to east and vice versa.

Taking advantage of the rapidly expanding Indian aviation sector and leveraging Hyderabad's strategic location, this new airport is positioned to become an important hub on the global aviation map.

1. ^ Airports in Andhra PradeshPDF (4.53 KiB)
2. ^ Begumpet Airport History

• Photos of Hyderabad Airport at Begumpet on HyderabadPlanet.com
• Hyderabad Airport at Airports Authority of India web site
• New Hyderabad Airport
• New Hyderabad Airport
• A Complete information of Hyderabad

• Airport information for VOHY at World Aero Data
• Accident history for HYD at Aviation Safety Network