Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
লোকপ্ৰিয় গোপীনাথ বৰদলৈ আন্তঃৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় বিমানবন্দৰ
Borjhar Airport/Guwāhāti International Airport
LGB International Airport, Guwahati
IATA: GAU – ICAO: VEGT
GAU
Location of airport in Assam
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Airports Authority of India
Location Guwahati, India
Elevation AMSL 162 ft / 49 m
Website aai.aero/guwahati
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
02/20 10,200 3,110 Asphalt
Statistics (Apr '10 - Mar '11)
Passenger movements 1,934,750
Aircraft movements 26,941
Cargo tonnage 8,520
Source: AAI [1][2][3]

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (Assamese: লোকপ্ৰিয় গোপীনাথ বৰদলৈ আন্তঃৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় বিমানবন্দৰ) (IATA: GAU, ICAO: VEGT), also known as Guwāhāti International Airport and formerly as Borjhar Airport, is the airport of Guwahati, Assam, India. The airport is managed by Airports Authority of India and also serves as Indian Air Force base. It is named after Gopinath Bordoloi who was a freedom fighter and also the first CM of Assam after independence.

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Airport specifications

Specifications

Guwahati airport is a major hub for flights to North-East India, known as the Nine Perfect Jewells or Seven Sisters. Helicopter services are operated from Guwahati to Shillong (30 min), Tura (50 min), Naharlagun (Itanagar), Tawang (75 min) by Pawan Hans, a helicopter service.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger
Airlines Destinations
Air India Bagdogra, Delhi, Imphal, Kolkata,
Air India Regional Agartala, Aizawl, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Imphal, Jorhat, Kolkata, Lilabari, Silchar, Tezpur
Druk Air Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Paro
GoAir Bagdogra, Delhi
IndiGo Chennai, Delhi, Imphal, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai
Jet Airways Aizawl, Delhi, Imphal, Kolkata, Jorhat, Mumbai, Silchar
JetLite Agartala, Bangalore, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Goa, Imphal, Jorhat, Kolkata, Mumbai, Vadodara
Kingfisher Airlines Bagdogra, Delhi, Imphal, Kolkata, Mumbai,
Pawan Hans Itanagar, Naharlagun, Shillong, Tawang, Tura
SpiceJet Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai
Cargo
Airlines Destinations
Kingfisher Xpress Ahmedabad
Charter
Airlines Destinations
Northeast Shuttles Cooch Behar
Pawan Hans Shillong

References

  1. ^ http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/mar2k11annex3.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/mar2k11annex2.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/mar2k11annex4.pdf.pdf

External links

International

Ahmedabad: Sardar Patel Airport • Amritsar: Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee Airport (Raja Sansi)¹ • Bangalore: Bengaluru Airport (Devanahalli) • Chennai (Madras): Chennai Airport (Meenambakkam) • Coimbatore Airport (Peelamedu)¹ • Delhi: Indira Gandhi Airport (Palam) • Gaya Airport¹ • Goa: Dabolim Airport¹ • Guwahati: Gopinath Bordoloi Airport (Borjhar)¹ • Hyderabad: Rajiv Gandhi Airport (Shamshabad) • Jaipur: Sanganer Airport¹ • Kochi (Cochin): Cochin Airport (Nedumbassery) • Kolkata (Calcutta): Subhash Chandra Bose Airport (Dum Dum) • Kozhikode (Calicut): Calicut Airport (Karipur) • Lucknow: Amausi Airport¹ • Mangalore Airport (Bajpe)¹ • Mumbai (Bombay): Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport (Sahar) • Nagpur: Babasaheb Ambedkar Airport (Sonegaon)¹ • Pune Airport (Lohegaon)¹ • Siliguri: Bagdogra Airport¹ • Srinagar: Sheikh ul Alam Airport¹ • Trichy: Tiruchirapalli Airport¹ • Trivandrum Airport • Varanasi (Benares): Babatpur Airport¹

  • Note: ¹ Designated as a "restricted international airport" ("customs airport"); a limited number of international flights are permitted at these airports.
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