Lengpui Airport

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Lengpui Airport Lengpui Airport
IATA: AJL - ICAO: VEAZ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Airports Authority of India
Serves		Aizawl
Elevation AMSL		1001 ft (305 m)
Coordinates		°0′23″44, 47°77′N″092
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
02/20	3750	1145	Asphalt

Lengpui Airport is an airport in Aizawl, Mizoram, India (IATA: AJL, ICAO: VEAZ). The airport is connected by daily flights with Kolkata and Guwahati and three flight a week with Imphal. Lengpui Airport is the first large airport in the country to be built by the State Government and it is the second largest airport in the North-East region. The 2500-metre runway of the Lengpui airport is unique in that it has many hilly streams running underneath.The airport was constructed at a cost of Rs. 97.92 crore and has been completed in a record time of two years and two months. The construction work was started in December 1995 and was completed in February 1998. Before the construction of this airport, Aizawl was 130 km from the nearest railway head at Bairabi and 205 km from the nearest airport at Silchar.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Air Deccan (Kolkata)
• Indian Airlines (Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata)

[edit] References

• Aizawl Destinations
• [1]Airport Inauguration