AAI released 260 Managers, 129 Jr Executives vacancies 2026
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About Airport Authority of India (AAI):
Airport Authority of India (AAI) is a statutory body and a public sector unit. It has been serving for our nation in the field of development, design, operation and maintenance of both domestic as well as international airports for the long decade. Also, it has several extensive projects for the upcoming years.
Airport Authority of India (AAI) has invited the various posts of recruitment for our students; those are searching jobs as per their qualification and eligibility ground.
In this article, we have discussed in detail about such ongoing recruitment process like the qualification, age criteria, no. of vacancies post-wise and selection procedure etc. We suggest to all of our students, check all of these details vividly before applying.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has declared the various kinds of post wise disciplines under both Managers 260 and Junior Executives 129 cadre posts respectively. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has released the Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT on their official website promptly.
So, the candidates are requested to once visit AAI official website https://www.aai.aero/en/careers/recruitment and checking their complete eligibility ground in all respects. But before you will visit their official website, must read this article completely, which will help you to understand thoroughly.
Now, we have elaborated the complete details of Airport Authority of India (AAI) Direct Recruitment of Managers and Junior Executives in various disciplines under Advt. No: 12/2026/CHQ/DR‐CBT. Here we have discussed the eligibility under age, qualification, post-wise vacancy and selection procedure etc.
Airports Authority of India (AAI)
Advertisement No.12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT:
| IMPORTANT PARTICULARS | |
| Online form starting | 08 August 2026 |
| Online form closing | 07 September 2026 up to 1800 hrs |
| No. of post vacancies | 389 |
| Age criteria | Maximum 32yrs(Manager Post)&Maximum 27yrs(Junior Executive Post) |
| Application mode | Online Gateway |
| Application FeeforMale Categories&SC, ST, PwBD, Women candidates, and AAI Apprentices with 1 year at least completion | 1000/- Rs (inclusive of GST) for UR/OBC (male)/EWS |
| Exempted | |
Eligibility under Authority of India (AAI) Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT:
Here we have talked about complete criterion(s) for this ongoing recruitment process under Airport Authority of India (AAI) according to your educational qualification as well as work experience basis.
| Cadre-wise Post | Qualification | Work Experience |
| Manager (Engg. -Civil) | B. tech/B.E. in Engineering/Technology in Civil stream | 3 years in Civil Engineering |
| Manager (Engg. – Elect) | B. tech/B.E. in Engineering/Technology in Electrical | 3 years in Electrical Engg. |
| Manager (Finance) | MBA (Finance)/PGDM (Finance)/Cost Accountant/Chartered Accountant/Chartered Financial Analyst | 3 years in Finance & Accounts with ERP (e.g. SAP) experience |
| Manager -Information Technology (IT) | B. tech/B.E. in Engineering/Technology in (CS/IT/Electronics) or full-time MCA | 3 years in Database Management, Data Centre Operations, ERP, Data Analytics or Software/Web Development as Team Lead |
| Manager (Architecture) | Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture, registered with Council of Architecture | 3 years in Architecture Programme |
| Manager (Law) | Professional Law Degree, eligible for Bar Council of India enrolment | 3 years in Law Course |
| Manager (Fire Services) | B. tech/B.E. in Engineering/Technology in Fire/Mechanical/Automobile Engineering | 3 years in Fire Services |
| Manager (Operations) | Graduate in Science + full-time MBA (2 years) / B. tech/B.E. in Engineering/Technology | 3 years in Airport/Airline/Ground Handling Operations |
| Manager (Commercial) | Graduate + full-time MBA (Marketing) OR Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering | 3 years in Marketing/Sales/Business Development/Leasing/Contracts |
| Manager (Corporate Planning & Managemet Services) | Post Graduate in Mathematical Statistics/Operation Research/Statistics/Economics with Statistics | 3 years in Economics/Statistics/Operation Research |
| Manager (Corporate Communications) | Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication/Journalism/Literature + PG Degree or Diploma in Journalism/Mass Communication | 3 years in Corporate Communications/PR |
| Junior Executive (Finance) | MBA (Finance)/PGDM (Finance)/Cost Accountant/Chartered Accountant/Chartered Financial Analyst | None |
| Junior Executive (Law) | Professional Law Degree, eligible for Bar Council of India enrolment | None |
| Junior Executive (Operations) | Graduate in Science + full-time MBA (2 years) OR Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering | None |
| Junior Executive (Survey & Cartography) | B. Tech / B.E. in Civil Engineering/Technology or Master’s in Geography/Remote Sensing & GIS/Geo-informatics/Geomatics | None |
Airport Authority of India (AAI) is conducting the total vacancies of 389 post-wise cadre with discipline-wise. Here candidates are requested to verify their details as per the qualification as well as experience basis before applying for the same.
| Airport Authority of India (AAI) Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT Vacancy Details,2026 | |
| Post-wise cadre | Nos. of Vacancies |
| Manager (Engg. – Civil) | 145 (UR-62, EWS-14, OBC(NCL)-38, SC-21, ST-10) |
| Manager (Engg. – Elect) | 16 (UR-4, EWS-5, OBC(NCL)-4, SC-2, ST-1) |
| Manager (Finance) | 34 (UR-19, EWS-3, OBC(NCL)-7, SC-4, ST-1) |
| Manager (Information Technology) | 5 (UR-5) |
| Manager (Architecture) | 4 (UR-3, OBC(NCL)-1) |
| Manager (Law) | 2 (UR-2) |
| Manager (Fire Services) | 14 (UR-8, EWS-1, OBC(NCL)-3, SC-1, ST-1) |
| Manager (Operations) | 28 (UR-13, EWS-2, OBC(NCL)-7, SC-4, ST-2) |
| Manager (Commercial) | 9 (UR-6, OBC(NCL)-2, SC-1) |
| Manager (Corporate Planning & Management Services) | 1 (UR-1) |
| Manager (Corporate Communications) | 2 (UR-2) |
| Junior Executive (Finance) | 36 (UR-13, EWS-6, OBC(NCL)-6, SC-5, ST-6) |
| Junior Executive (Law) | 6 (UR-5, SC-1) |
| Junior Executive (Operations) | 79 (UR-35, EWS-7, OBC(NCL)-21, SC-11, ST-5) |
| Junior Executive (Survey & Cartography) | 8 (UR-5, OBC(NCL)-2, ST-1) |
N.B. The above vacancy details are provisional basis, it may alter or may not; that wholly dependent on Airport Authority of India (AAI)
Name of Post-wise Cadres & Age on prescribed dt: 07/09/2026
- Manger for all categories & Up to 32 years
- Junior Executive for all Categories & Up to 27 years
N.B. :-
- The candidates those have belonged to the categories like SC/ST candidates prescribed relaxation up to Age 5 years.
- For the candidate OBC (Non-Creamy layer) up to Age 3 years.
- For PwBD candidates with permanent disability (for identified suitable posts) up to Age 10 years
- For Ex-servicemen and Commissioned Officers with at least 5 years of military service up to Age 5 years
- For Candidates already in regular AAI service who have completed probation up to Age 10 years
AAI Selection Procedure 2026 under Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT
- Airport Authority of India (AAI) will be conducted purely meritorious basis through Computer Based Test (CBT). But there is no negative marking for every wrong answer. The correctness of application is dependent on their CBT as well as next selection procedure. No doubt, only those candidates, have no such issues on their application is eligible for getting admit card for the CBT.
- Computer Based Test will be held on only after the students’ application form corresponds to their subsequent Tests if as it is applicable for all the posts, apart from these posts, the post codes 1 to 11 will consider for the interview as part of the selection method.
- But only for the post Manager (Fire Services) w.r.t their application form will be followed by Physical test, Driving Test, and Physical Endurance Test (PET) under running, casualty carrying (lifting & carrying sand bag), pole climbing, rope climbing full ladder climbing & descending order. These stages are very important and have to pass compulsory, once candidates are qualifying these stages are called for interview.
- For the post Manager (Fire Services) shall be required to submit their valid Permanent Light Motor Vehicle License at the time of application Verification, if failing to produce the candidates are not allowed to proceed for next process.
- Candidates should ready their all-original documents, which are to submit at the time of application verification as well as interview time.
- One more thing, candidates are required to submit their complete copies of self-attested certificates. If there is any kind of errors or mismatch occurs, they are supposed to be rejected for the next.
- If any candidates have been working in central government service/state govt. service/ or autonomous institutions/public sector unit, they are bound to produce their No Objection Certificate (NOC) at the time of application verification and or / interview. No further entitle will be made for those candidates are failing to produce this document.
- The selection under provisional basis will be made as per the performance merit-wise, once the department scrutinized vividly for each shortlisted candidate in the CBT and Interview.
How to Apply for All Posts under AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT
- The candidates should have complete knowledge about this AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT before applying for their eligible posts.
- The Candidates should visit its official website which has mentioned here https://www.aai.aero/en/careers/recruitment
- Then, candidates should go to CAREERS section and search the Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT.
- Once you sign up or previously existence user id & password, they are just to login and start to fill up their Name, Email id, Mobile Number and other details.
- Candidates should remember that whatever the input like Email and Mobile No. should be in active mode until recruitment process completes.
- Once the candidates filled up their all-essential information regarding their which post applying, now it’s time to upload their all documents like photo, signature and other documents as per the prescribed size mentioned here.
- The Photo & Signature’s size should be jpg/jpeg format only. The Photo should have dimensions of 200×300 pixels, which is subjected to file size should be 20kb – 50kb. Similarly, the Signature should be made by your running hand by black ink pen and have the dimensions of 160×60 pixels and file size should be 10kb – 20kb.
- Once after these parts are completed now students have to take their thumb hand impression with the dimensions of 240×240 pixels with file size should be up to 20kb – 50kb.
Now please note:
Candidates should write the Declaration with his/her own handwriting with neat and clean on white paper with Black ink pen.
- Here this document should have dimensions of 800 x 400 pixels with ile size should be 50kb – 100kb.
- Once the candidates have completed these steps, now they have to pay their fee by clicking on the link which is available their site to redirect you a new tab and here you have to input your necessary information if it is required to complete your process. Once you will complete and again review your pre-filled application before final submission.
- After your final review, now submit your final online application and take PDF format copies for your future reference for the next. Like this, you can complete your online application form under AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT.
N.B. All the instructions are mandatory for all candidates before appearing the examination. So, candidates must read all instructions vividly as per the AAI guidelines.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: (FAQs)
Q1. What is AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT?
Ans. Airport Authority of India (AAI) has released the several vacancies with post-wise Manager and Junior Executive cadre under 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT all over India basis for all category candidates.
Q2. What is the last date to apply for AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT?
Ans. The closing date of AAI recruitment window will be available up to 07 September 2026 1800 hrs.
Q3. How many vacancies are there AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT?
Ans. There are 389 total nos. of vacancies posted under this advertisement, 2026 recruitment.
Q4. What is the age limit for AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT?
Ans. The age limit for The AAI Advertisement No. 12/2026/CHQ/DR-CBT has scheduled for Manager up to 32yrs. And Junior Executive up to 27yrs and with some category-wise age relaxation.
Q5. What is the application fee for AAI Recruitment 2026?
Ans. The application fee is 1000 (inclusive GST) for male category candidates except SC/ST/PwBD women category candidates.
Q6. How are the selection processes for AAI Recruitment 2026?
Ans. The selection under AAI recruitment, 2026 is purely meritorious basis which is followed up by Application Verification/Subsequent Tests/Interview for Managerial posts (Post Codes 1–11). Manager (Fire Services) also includes Physical Measurement, Driving, and Physical Endurance Tests (PET).
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