Hyderabad’s Begumpet Airport gates opened for Wings India 2026 visitors; people look up to witness spectacle

The aged tarmac astatine Begumpet airport, which erstwhile handled Hyderabad’s regular flights, turned into a festival crushed arsenic Wings India 2026 opened its gates to the nationalist connected Friday (January 30, 2026), drafting visitors from crossed Telangana successful a steady, smiling stream.

From astir 10 a.m., the entranceway filled with families and groups of friends, children perched connected their parents’ shoulders for a amended view, grandparents walking dilatory but determinedly, and youngsters craning their necks astatine the show of craft tails rising supra the bound wall, each anxious for their archetypal adjacent look astatine the machines they usually lone spotted arsenic tiny specks successful the sky.

For Devender, who had travelled each the mode from Warangal, this was a long-promised household outing. With his two-and-a-half-year-old girl successful his arms and his woman Kamati cradling their eight-month-old son, helium pointed excitedly towards the craft lined up connected display. “We instrumentality our children to the balcony and constituent astatine the entity whenever a level passes implicit our house. I wanted them to spot what aeroplanes look similar successful existent life, truthful I brought them here,” helium said.

His younger child, hardly disposable wrong a brushed babe blanket, followed his father’s digit upwards and broke into a wide smile. Devender laughed arsenic a chopper thundered overhead. “I emotion that noise. Earlier I utilized to sojourn by myself. This is the archetypal clip I americium present with my woman and children and I americium truthful blessed we could marque it,” helium said.

A fewer metres distant stood Rithika, revisiting a portion of her childhood. Now grown up, she had brought her parents backmost to the amusement they erstwhile took her to each year. “It’s similar an unsaid contented successful our family. My parents ever brought maine here,” she said. Her parent watched a towering craft with acquainted delight. “We emotion seeing these immense planes. We person been coming for truthful galore years,” she said with a smile.

For immoderate visitors, however, it was a archetypal successful the astir literal sense. Sitesh stood betwixt his 80-year-old parent and 78-year-old aunt, mildly guiding them crossed the show area. Though lifelong residents of Hyderabad, they had ne'er earlier visited the show.

“This time, our comparative insisted we come,” helium said.

When they reached the parked Boeing 787 Dreamliner, some women stopped successful their tracks. Looking up astatine the sweeping wings and towering tail, Sitesh’s parent broke into a shy, astonished smile. “Pehli baar itna bada level dekh kar khushi toh ho rahi hai (I americium feeling blessed connected seeing specified a immense level for the archetypal clip successful my life),” she said. Her sister nodded beside her with an affectional smile.

Elsewhere, a radical of assemblage students admitted they had bunked classes for the day. Their timing was perfect. Just arsenic they reached the unfastened viewing area, the Suryakiran Aerobatic Team roared overhead, red-and-white jets slicing the entity successful choky formation.

Cheers erupted and phones changeable up successful unison. “This is truthful cool!” 1 of them shouted, his dependable astir mislaid successful the thunder above. Ritwik, different student, said they had been waiting eagerly for the visit. “There are much craft than the erstwhile years. It’s an unreal feeling to beryllium here,” helium said.

Among the assemblage was Priya, who hopes 1 time to beryllium wrong a cockpit arsenic a pilot. “Whenever a level passes successful the sky, I ever halt and look astatine it,” she said. “To spot these beauteous jets close successful beforehand of my eyes is similar a dream. One day, I privation to alert 1 of these.”

As announcements crackled implicit the loudspeakers for the adjacent aerial display, the assemblage instinctively paused. Conversations fell silent, heads tilted upwards and hundreds of hands held phones aloft. Some visitors adjacent made video calls to relatives successful distant cities and countries, turning their screens towards the entity to stock the spectacle live.

Back connected the ground, children queued for miniature craft toys and aviation caps astatine merchandise stalls, portion parents debated which souvenir would champion seizure the day.