Mangalore International Airport

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Mangalore International Airport
IATA: IXE - ICAO: VOML
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Airports Authority of India
Serves		Mangalore
Elevation AMSL		337 ft (103 m)
Coordinates		12°57′41″N, 74°53′24″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
09/27	5,300	1,615	Asphalt

Mangalore International Airport (IATA: IXE, ICAO: VOML) (formerly Bajpe Airport) is the domestic and international airport serving Mangalore, India.

1 Overview
2 Structure
3 Airlines
- 3.1 Domestic
- 3.2 International
4 Destinations
5 External link
6 References

[edit] Overview

Mangalore International Airport (IATA: IXE) is located near Bajpe, around 20km north-east of the city centre. Until 2005, its small 1.6 km (5,200 ft) runway meant that it could only handle Boeing 737-sized aircraft. However, on January 10, 2006 an Airbus 319 of Kingfisher Airlines was the first aircraft in that class to land on this runway ^[1]. Furthermore, a new international length (2.9 km) runway was constructed and commissioned on 10 May 2006. With larger aircraft now able to fly to Mangalore, a proposal to build a new terminal building, which will reduce the distance between Mangalore city and the airport by about 7km, is under consideration. Construction of the terminal building would start likely in January 2007 and take about 19 months time according to the Airports Authority of India. ^[2]

At present, daily flights are available to Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad(via Mumbai) while plans are underway to have night landing facilities in order to facilitate International and long distance internal flights. On 3 October 2006, an Air-India Express Boeing 737-800 (flight IX-802) from Dubai became the first international flight to land at Mangalore, touching down at 6:11 (IST). ^[3].