To India by Air
There are five designed international airports in India – at Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Trivandrum. Limited international flights are also operated from Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Goa, Calicut, Amritsar, Varanasi, Lucknow, Cochin, Guwahati, Trichirapalli, Agra and Jaipur. These are designed as ‘Customs airports’ and allow landing of tourist charter flights and  international flights by the national carriers of India. The international airports at the four major metros have a fairly comprehensive range of facilities.

These may include duty-free shops, restaurants, business centers, rest-room for the disabled as well, telephone booths, travel assistance counters, hotel booking counters of major hotel chains, baby-care rooms, taxi and rent-a-car counters, airline booking counters, foreign exchange counters, mobile phone rentals and so on. Check out individual city sections for details of facilities respective cities.

Customs on arrival
There are two customs clearance channels. The green channel and the red channel. The first one is for the travelers carrying non-dutiable items and the second one is for the travelers carrying dutiable items.

Baggage Misappropriation
In case your baggage is lost or mishandled in transit, you should obtain a certificate from the airline and have it countersigned by the customs specifying how much of your duty free allowance is utilized.

Customs on Departure
Prohibited items on export:

Income tax clearance procedures do not affect the visitors leaving India within six months. Yet, incase of an enquiry, your encashment certificates should be ready.

All the tourists, on departure must pay a Foreign Travel Tax of Rs.150 for departures to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives and Rs.500 for all other countries.