Hyderabad airport contributes nearly ₹68,000 crore to Telangana economy, supports 3.5 lakh jobs

Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has evolved into 1 of Telangana’s astir important economical drivers, contributing astir ₹68,000 crore successful gross worth added (GVA) and supporting astir 3.5 lakh jobs done direct, indirect and induced effects during 2024–25, according to an economical interaction appraisal by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). 

When the adjoining GMR Aerocity is included, the wide RGIA ecosystem’s publication rises to astir ₹75,000 crore successful GVA and adjacent to 4.1 lakh jobs, accounting for much than 5% of the State’s GVA and a measurable stock of nationalist output and employment.

How the economical multiplier works

The study, conducted successful October 2025, measures nonstop impacts generated by airdrome operations, indirect impacts done supplier linkages, and induced impacts arising from household depletion by employees crossed the airport’s worth chain. The findings bespeak that portion airdrome operations unsocial generated astir ₹30,000 crore successful nonstop output and astir ₹9,000 crore successful GVA during 2024–25, these figures expanded sharply erstwhile indirect and induced effects were factored in, taking full output adjacent to ₹1.5 lakh crore and employment to astir 3.5 lakh.

Data presented successful the NCAER tables amusement that the airport’s publication accounted for astir 4.63% of Telangana’s GVA and astir 1.69% of State employment, underlining its structural value to the determination economy.

Sharper maturation projected by 2037–38

NCAER’s projections for 2037–38 suggest that RGIA’s relation volition deepen further. By that year, the combined economical interaction of airdrome operations and the GMR Aerocity was estimated astatine astir ₹2.13 lakh crore successful GVA, supporting astir 9.8 lakh jobs.

The survey besides underlines RGIA’s value to commercialized and exports, peculiarly for Hyderabad’s beingness sciences and pharmaceutical industries. The airport’s dedicated pharma portion astatine the cargo terminal, supported by planetary certifications and temperature-controlled handling facilities, has enabled sustained high-value exports to markets successful the Middle East, Europe, the Far East and Southeast Asia. This cargo capableness helped support export momentum adjacent during periods erstwhile nationalist airborne exports faced pressure.

Passenger maturation strengthens connectivity

Passenger postulation maturation has reinforced RGIA’s relation successful enhancing Hyderabad’s competitiveness. The airdrome handled astir 29.5 cardinal passengers successful FY25, including 24.4 cardinal home and 5.1 cardinal planetary travellers. Long-term projections bespeak postulation could scope 88.1 cardinal passengers by FY38, implying a compound yearly maturation complaint of 8.8% betwixt FY25 and FY38. The airdrome presently connects 72 home and 24 planetary destinations.

Placing RGIA wrong the broader Telangana maturation story, the survey notes that the airport’s emergence has coincided with the State’s translation into 1 of India’s astir competitory economies, marked by beardown GDP growth, rising overseas concern and Hyderabad’s emergence arsenic a hub for technology, pharmaceuticals and planetary capableness centres.