Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport

Leh Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Airport
लेह कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोचे हवाई अड्डा
Leh Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Airport
IATA: IXL – ICAO: VILH
IXL
Location of airport in India
Summary
Airport type Military/Public
Serves Leh
Location Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Elevation AMSL 10,682 ft / 3,256 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 2,130 7,000 Asphalt

Leh Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Airport (Tibetan: སྐུཤོག་བ་ཀུ་ལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཊར་མི་ནལ་གླེ།, Hindi: लेह कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोचे हवाई अड्डा) (IATA: IXL, ICAO: VILH) is an airport in Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It's one of the highest airports in the world at 3,256 m (10,682 ft) above mean sea level. The airport is named after the Venerable Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, whose 19th Incarnation was an important Indian and Ladakhi Statesman.

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Security

Due to problems with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, the security in Leh Airport is paramount. On flights departing from Leh, hand baggage is not permitted, with the exception of a camera or a laptop bag. Passengers also have to identify their check-in baggage after scanning, and before being loaded onto the aircraft. Additionally, a substantial number of police and the Indian Army patrol the airport. Also, due to the presence of mountain winds in the afternoon, all flights in Leh take off and land in the morning. Passengers are expected to report 2 hours before scheduled departure time to provide adequate time for security checks .

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air India Delhi, Jammu, Srinagar
GoAir Delhi
Jet Airways Delhi
Kingfisher Airlines Delhi

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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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