Rajkot Airport

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Rajkot Airport
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Departures
  • IATA: RAJ
  • ICAO: VARK
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAirports Authority of India
ServesRajkot
LocationRajkot, Gujarat, India
Elevation AMSL135 m / 443 ft
Coordinates22°18′33″N 070°46′46″E / 22.30917°N 70.77944°E / 22.30917; 70.77944
Maps
RAJ is located in Gujarat
RAJ
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 1,843 6,047 Asphalt
Statistics (Apr '14 – Mar '15)
Passenger movements551,343 (Increase14.7%)
Aircraft movements3,334 (Increase14.5%)
Cargo tonnage134 (Decrease14.6%)
Source: AAI[1][2][3]

Rajkot Airport (IATA: RAJ, ICAO: VARK) is a public airport located at Rajkot, Gujarat, India. Rajkot Airport is the 4th busiest airport in Gujarat after Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.

Airlines and destinations[]

AirlinesDestinations
Air IndiaDelhi, Mumbai
IndiGoBangalore (resumes from 31st October, 2021), Delhi, Mumbai[4]
SpiceJetDelhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Mumbai[5]

Modernisation plans[]

Rajkot Urban Development Authority and Rajkot Municipal Corporation have proposed a plan to extend Rajkot airport runway from current 5,400 feet (1,600 m) to 6,000 feet (1,800 m) to accommodate larger aircraft and to provide connectivity to major cities besides Mumbai to cater to a large demand from the manufacturing companies located in Rajkot. The airport now suffers from considerable capacity restraints, due to the expansion of the city and because of the residential and commercial buildings which have been built around it – this renders the plan to extend the runway unfeasible. The present strip is incapable of serving aircraft larger than Airbus 320 family/Boeing 737-800 (which is the largest aircraft operating from the airport). As such, plans for an entirely new airport has been approved.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the Rajkot Greenfield International Airport at Hirasar held on 7 October 2017.[6] This is located on Ahmedabad-Rajkot national highway about 36 km from Rajkot. Work is in progress & this new international airport is expected to be operational by 2022.

As of 2020, Rajkot airport runway is extended by 100 meters and additional bays are being constructed to park more aircraft due to increase in passenger traffic but the work has been slow due to COVID-19.

References[]

  1. ^ "Traffic News for the month of March 2019: Annexure-III" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 1 May 2019. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Traffic News for the month of March 2019: Annexure-II" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 1 May 2019. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-IV" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 1 May 2018. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  4. ^ "New Flights Information, Status & Schedule | IndiGo". www.goindigo.in.
  5. ^ "SpiceJet's Flights Schedule and Information for domestic and international flights". Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Narendra Modi in Gujarat: PM presides over 'bhumi pujan' of greenfield airport at Hirasar near Rajkot". Firstpost. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.

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