Winter Schedule 2025: 26,495 weekly domestic departures from 126 airports; four new airports added
The Civil Aviation Ministry finalised the Winter Schedule 2025 for domestic airlines, with 26,495 departures a week from 126 airports between 26 October 2025 and 28 March 2026.
Summary
On 24 October 2025, the Ministry of Civil Aviation announced the Winter Schedule 2025 (WS25) for scheduled domestic airlines, valid from 26 October 2025 to 28 March 2026. It has 26,495 departures a week to and from 126 airports, compared with 25,610 weekly departures from 129 airports in Summer Schedule 2025. Weekly departures are 5.95% higher than in Winter Schedule 2024. Amravati, Hissar, Purnia and Rupsi are new airports in the schedule, while operations from Aligarh, Moradabad, Chitrakoot, Bhavnagar, Ludhiana, Pakyong and Shravasti were suspended.
Key facts
- Validity
- 26 Oct 2025 – 28 Mar 2026
- Weekly departures
- 26,495 from 126 airports
- Summer 2025
- 25,610 from 129 airports
- Growth vs WS24
- 5.95%
- New airports
- Amravati, Hissar, Purnia, Rupsi
- Suspended
- Aligarh, Moradabad, Chitrakoot, Bhavnagar, Ludhiana, Pakyong, Shravasti
Practice MCQs 2 questions
Which one of the following was NOT among the new airports added by scheduled domestic airlines in the Winter Schedule 2025?
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Correct answer: D — Shravasti
PIB: Amravati, Hissar, Purnia and Rupsi are the new airports in WS25, whereas operations from Shravasti (along with Aligarh, Moradabad, Chitrakoot, Bhavnagar, Ludhiana and Pakyong) were suspended.
Under the Winter Schedule 2025 (26 October 2025 – 28 March 2026), domestic airlines' 26,495 weekly departures are to and from how many airports?
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Correct answer: B — 126
PIB: 26,495 departures per week to/from 126 airports in WS25, compared to 25,610 departures per week from 129 airports in Summer Schedule 2025.