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Miss your Train! India beckons you to a new adventure, an
adventure through varied landscapes, cultures and histories. Be a part of
the scintillating diversity that is India and feel the joy of unraveling
mysteries and discovering the simple pleasures of life.
The most
pleasant mode of traveling through India is by train. The Indian Railways -
the second largest railway system in the world, has over 62,300 km of track
laid between 7000 stations and over 11,000 locomotives.
Today, it
offers diverse tourist routes, magnificent hotels on wheels with five-star
services and Indrail Passes, ideal for extensive trouble-free across the
country. Can you hear the whistle? Can you hear the chug-chug on the railway
tracks? Can you feel the rhythm of the moving train? Then hurry don't miss
your train!
Airports in India
There are 449 airports / airstrips in the country. Active among them are 92
airports and 28 civil enclaves at defence airfields which provides air traffic
services over the entire Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. Currently
the various Airlines are utilizing only 61 Airports. This means that there is
still a huge market to be tapped in the Civil Aviation Services Sector.
The Airports in India are presently classified in the following manner:
1.International Airports: These are declared as international airports
and are available for scheduled international operations by Indian and foreign
carriers. Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Chennai (Madras), Kolkotta (Calcutta) Kochi
(Cochin) and Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) are in this category.
2.Custom Airports: These have customs and immigration facilities for
limited international operations by national carriers and for foreign tourist
and cargo charter flights. These include Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Calicut,
Cochin, Goa, Varanasi, Patna, Agra, Jaipur, Amritsar and Tiruchirapally.
3.Model Airports: These are domestic airports which have minimum runway
length of 7500 feet and adequate terminal capacity to handle Airbus 320 type
of aircraft. These can cater to limited international traffic, if required.
These include Lucknow, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Nagpur, Vadodara, Coimbatore,
Imphal and Indore.
4.Other Domestic Airports: All other airports are covered in this category.
5.Civil Enclaves in Defence Airport: There are 28 civil enclaves in Defence
airfields.
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