Hyderabad is a famous holiday and business destination and is well connected by air. Flights to Hyderabad and flights from Hyderabad make the fastest means of commuting. According to the budget one may look for discounted and cheap flight to Hyderabad and can also make arrangements for a charter flight to Hyderabad.
Hyderabad has had an airport since the 1930s at Begumpet. Begumpet airport has two terminals, for domestic and international travels. The airport provides flights to all major destinations in India, as well as connections to locations in Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, Americas and Sri Lanka. The city is about to get a much bigger and state-of-art Airport at Shamshabad, which lies on the outskirts of the city. The new airport, once completed, will be able to provide much needed infrastructure to handle large aircraft, and international traffic. It will be built on an area of 5,400 acres and will have the longest runway among Indian airports. It will also be able to handle the world's largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380.
Currently, direct flights to Hyderabad and from Hyderabad are available from foreign cities such as Amsterdam (KLM), Frankfurt, Germany (Lufthansa), Singapore (Air India, Indian Airlines and Singapore Airlines), Dubai (Emirates and Indian Airlines), Bangkok (Indian Airlines), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian Airlines), Colombo (Sri Lankan Airlines), Dammam (Air India), Doha (Qatar Airways), Jeddah (Air India and Saudi Arabian Airlines), Muscat (Oman Air) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabian Airlines).
Saudi Arabian Airlines has become the seventh foreign airline to make Hyderabad its destination by launching direct flights to Hyderabad from Jeddah and Riyadh. The other foreign airlines that operate services from Hyderabad are Emirates, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways, Silk Air and SriLankan Airlines.
