Jodhpur Airport

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Jodhpur Airport
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Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
Operator Airports Authority of India
Serves Jodhpur
Location Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Elevation  AMSL 216 m / 710 ft
Coordinates 26°15′26″N073°03′06″E / 26.25722°N 73.05167°E / 26.25722; 73.05167
Website Jodhpur Airport
Map
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Airplane silhouette.svg
JDH
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JDH
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
05/232,7449,002 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (April 2023 - March 2024)
Passengers1,091,127 (Increase2.svg 21.3%)
Aircraft movements9,037 (Increase2.svg 19.3%)
Cargo tonnage108 Increase2.svg
Source: AAI [1] [2] [3]

Jodhpur Airport( IATA : JDH, ICAO : VIJO) is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force base serving the city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. It is operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and shares its airside with the Jodhpur Air Force Station of the Indian Air Force.

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The Government of Rajasthan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Air Force for the expansion of the passenger terminal in March 2017, wherein 37 acres of IAF land would be transferred to AAI. [4] In May 2021, it was transferred by IAF to AAI through Jodhpur Development Authority (JoDA), and the terminal was built. [5] It is the 44th busiest airport in India, handling more than half a million passengers in FY 2018–2019.

History

The Jodhpur Flying Club was set up by Maharaja Umaid Singh in the 1920s at a small airfield near his Chittar Palace (Umaid Bhavan Palace) in Jodhpur. Through the next three decades, the airfield grew in stature, being used as an airfield for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. [6] The airfield was upgraded in 1950 after the formation of the Royal Indian Air Force (which later became the Indian Air Force). [7] Jodhpur was home to the IAF's Air Force Flying College until the 1965 war. [8]

Structure

The airport's 12-acre civil enclave contains a terminal building measuring a built-up area of 5,690 m2, which is capable of handling 430 passengers per hour. The terminal has seven check-in counters and three boarding gates. The adjoining concrete apron measures 140 by 100 metres and has three parking bays that can cater to two Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 type aircraft simultaneously.

The runway is 2,743 metres long and 45 metres wide. The airfield is equipped with night landing facilities and an Instrument Landing System (ILS) as well as navigational facilities like DVOR/DME and an NDB. [9]

Jodhpur Air Force Station

Squadrons of HAL Dhruv, Mikoyan MiG-27, Mil Mi-17 and Sukhoi Su-30MKI aircraft are based here. It was active during the Kargil War of 1999. There is also a battalion of the Garud Commando Force here.

On 3 October 2022, IAF inducted HAL Prachand into 143 Helicopter Unit at Jodhpur Air Force Station. [10] [11] [12] [13]

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HAL Prachand In Jodhpur AFS

Airlines and destinations

Interior of the airport Check in area and Baggage screening at Jodhpur Airport.jpg
Interior of the airport
AirlinesDestinations
Air India Delhi, Mumbai
IndiGo Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, [14] Mumbai, Pune [15]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at JDH airport. See Wikidata query.

See also

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