Rajahmundry Airport
Rajahmundry City Airport (IATA: RJA, ICAO: VORY) is located at Madhurapudi,
18 km north of Rajahmundry in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Besides commercial flights to Hyderabad, the air strip is extensively used
by helicopters of the ONGC for its offshore oil exploration operations and
other government agencies. The airport was constructed during the British
era and is spread over an area of 366 acres. It was served by Vayudoot
between 1985 and 1994 and by VIF Airways in 1995.
The Andhra Pradesh government signed an MoU worth Rs. 23 crore with the
Airports Authority of India (AAI) in February 2007 for modernising the
airport. Works on the new terminal building to accommodate 150 passengers
and a control tower were completed in 2011.
The Airport has one asphalt surface runway, oriented 05/23, the length of
runway is 5,710 ft (1,740 m) with elevation 151 ft (46 m) above sea level.
Limited by runway length, airlines operate smaller 70 seat turbo-prop
aircraft like the ATR-72 (Jet Airways) and the Q-400 (SpiceJet) into
Rajahmundry Airport.
The nearest International Airport from Rajahmundry City Airport is
Visakhapatnam International Airport, roughly 204 km from Madhurapudi.
The Airport has seen a rapid increase of passenger footfall during the
second half of 2020 – from 7,700 in July to 28,900 in December. As part of
the expansion plans, construction of a new terminal is proposed at a cost of
₹135 crore (US$17 million). The new terminal would be able to handle about
1,400 passengers.
Airlines and Destinations
For the past, scheduled commercial flights to this Airport was operated by
Jet Airways (to Chennai and Hyderabad), SpiceJet (to Hyderabad) and TruJet
(to Bangalore and Hyderabad).
Currently, IndiGo serves scheduled commercial flights to various major
cities as stated below:
| Airlines | Destinations |
| IndiGo | Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam |
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