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The first flight took off on 1 November 1935, carrying mails of Royal Anchal (Travancore Post) to Bombay. In 1938, the Royal Government of Travancore acquired a [[Douglas DC-3|Dakota]] as the Maharaja's private aircraft and placed the first squadron of the Royal Indian Air Force (Travancore) for protection of the state from aerial attacks. After Independence, the airstrip was used for domestic flights with the construction of a new domestic terminal, Terminal 1.
International operations were initiated by [[Air India]] to cities in the [[Arabian Peninsula]] in the late 1970s using Boeing 707. By the early 80s, the then-Indian Airlines started service to Colombo, followed by service to Male. Later, Gulf Air, [[SriLankan Airlines|Sri Lankan Airlines]] (then Air Lanka) and Air Maldives (now [[Maldivian (airline)|Maldivian]]) started operations. These were followed by Indian Airlines, which started a service to Sharjah. On 1 January 1991, TIA was upgraded to an international airport, making it the fifth international airport of India after Delhi, Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.
On 1 March 2011, the first flight operated from the new international terminal, Terminal 2. IX 536 (Air India Express) from Sharjah marked the first arrival. Air India Express operated the first departure to Dubai from this new terminal. [[Skytanking|IndianOil Skytanking]] is the company that introduced single-man refuelling in India and started refuelling operations at Trivandrum in March 2016.
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