- JRD Tata was the first person to take a solo flight from Mumbai to Karachi in 1931.
- In 1935, the ‘Tata Air Lines’ started its operation between Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram and in 1937 between Mumbai and Delhi.
- In 1953, all the private airline companies were nationalised and Indian Airlines and Air India came into existence.
- Vayudoot Limited started in 1981 as a private air carrier and later on it merged with Indian Airlines.
- International Airports Authority of India and National Airports Authority were merged on 1995 to form Airports Authority of India.
- The Authority manages the Civil Aviation Training College at Allahabad and National Institute of Aviation Management and Research at Delhi.
| International Airports | City |
| Rajiv Gandhi International Airport | Hyderabad |
| Calicut International Airport | Calicut |
| Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport | Mumbai |
| Kempe Gowda International Airport | Bengaluru |
| Goa Airport in Vasco de Gama City | Goa |
| Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport | Kolkata |
| Thiruvananthapuram International Airport | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International | Guwahati |
| Airport Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport | Ahmedabad |
| Indira Gandhi International Airport | Delhi |
| Chennai International Airport | Chennai |
| Shri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport | Amritsar |