So often statistics on airports are presented based on passenger traffic, cargo tonnage, or aircraft operations. Instead, the list below shows the 21 international airports in India ranked by the amount of land area (or acreage) they occupy.

While it is unclear whether there is a definitive relationship between land mass and passenger traffic or aircraft operations, larger airport facilities certainly have a rosier long-term growth advantage as more land is readily available for lengthening/adding runways, expanding/adding terminals, enlarged air freight storage and distribution, and other ancillary uses.

The most interesting nuance of the 2012 data is the large gap in land area occupied (more than 2,000 acres) between the five largest airports in India and the balance of the list.

City (Airport name if different) Acres

Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi) 5,495 Delhi (Indira Gandhi) 5,220 Mumbai (Shivaji) 4,800 Bengaluru 4,000 Kolkata (Bose) 1,641 Panaji (Goa) 1,424 Chennai 1,400 Nagpur (Ambedkar) 1,355 Amristar (Jee) 1,250 Kochi (Cochin) 1,200 (corrected on 12/26/17) Lucknow (Singh) 1,187 Ahmedabad (Patel) 929 Jaipur 716 Tirchuchirapalli 702 Guwahati (Bordoloi) 628 Thiruvananthapura (Trivandum) 616 Coimbatore 608 Mangalore 584 Varanassi (Shastri) 583 Kozihode (Calicut) 378 Port Blair (Savarkar) 134

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