[3] Today it is mostly used for VVIP helicopter passenger flights to the Indira Gandhi International Airport including the President and the Prime Minister.

Since the early 2000s, when going on foreign trip, the PM receives his send-offs from his cabinet members and other dignitaries here, instead of the main airport.

[12] The airstrip is also used for small aircraft of state chief ministers such as those of Punjab and Haryana, making it to 80 to 90 helicopter movements every month.

Spread over 1,70,000 sq.m., the parking area could accommodate 3000 cars, 6000 two-wheelers and 450 buses of the shuttle service bus.

[14] A 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) long tunnel connects the Indian prime minister's residence to Safdarjung Airport, where VVIP helicopters land.

Constructed beyond Kemal Atatürk Marg, Golf Course and Safdarjung Tomb and then an overground drive to surface at the helicopter hangar at the airport, work on the tunnel began in 2010 and was completed by July 2014 and Modi was the first PM to use it.

[16] The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi has its Delhi liaison office in the administrative block of the airport.

[21] There is a special link from Prime Minister residence, 7 RCR (Now 7, Lok Kalyan Marg) to Safadarjung Airport.

Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock have a stop-over in India, and they depart from Willingdon Airfield (now Safdarjung Airport).