By Air

Sonari Airport is the airport serving the city. The airport is primarily used for bringing in chartered planes of TATA group.

A few airlines that started operations from Jamshedpur in 2007 were forced to withdraw due to unviable operations following conversion of the airport from Category 3C to 2C which means that runway length will be shorter and that no more than 45 passengers can be accommodated on a flight. Kingfisher and MDLR airlines had flights from the airport till November 2009. From 16 August 2010, airlines services were resumed by Deccan Charters with three daily flights to Kolkata.

The airport has a flight training school and simulator center for commercial pilots called Alchemist Aviation (formerly known as Tatanagar Aviation).The Jamshedpur Co-operative Flying Club was started by the Tata Sons group chairman Mr. Ratan Tata who is a pilot himself. The nearest commercial airports are Kolkata and Ranchi.

Tata Steel has proposed to set up a 300-acre (1.2 km2) greenfield airport on the outskirts of Jamshedpur in Adityapur-Seraikella region. It was supposed to have a runway length of 7,500 ft (2,300 m) for larger aircraft's operations.As of 2010 the project is on hold, Tata Steel MD stated that the airport was not feasible unless good road networks were built.TRIL has announced that it would build the new airport as a private developer, in a press conference.

By Train

Tatanagar Junction is a railway junction and a model station on the South Eastern Railway and is the most important railway junction of the state as it is connected directly to all the major cities of India, viz., Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Jabalpur, Patna, Nagpur, Kanpur, Ranchi, Pune, Jammu, Vishakapatnam, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar etc. The main railway station of the city is known as Tatanagar Junction, others are Adityapur , Gamahria , Salgajhari and Govindpur.

By Road

Jamshedpur is connected to other parts of India through national and state highways.The major highways are National Highway 33 (NH 33) touches the city and connects it to Mumbai and further joins the NH32, which connects Kolkata with Delhi.National Highway 32 (NH 32) connects Jamshedpur to Govindpur via Dhanbad, Bokaro.

By Bus

Bus services are available from Jamshedpur to Ranchi (131 km), Patna, Gaya, Kolkata (300 km) via Baharagora,Hazaribagh, Puri, Bhubaneshwar, Asansol, Bokaro, Dhanbad etc.The four lane expressway, which will connect the industrial town of Adityapur to the city will be completed by the end of 2011.