Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport

Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport
कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोचे हवाई अड्डा

Leh Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport

IATA: IXL – ICAO: VILH

IXL

Location of airport in India

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Airport Authority of India

Serves

Leh

Location

Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Elevation AMSL

10,682 ft / 3,256 m

Coordinates

34°08′09″N 077°32′47″E / 34.13583°N 77.54639°E

Website

Leh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
07/25	2,752	9,028	Asphalt

Statistics (2014)

Passenger movements	394,005 (19.39%)
Aircraft movements	3,376
Cargo tonnage	1,247

Source: AAI,^[1]^[2]^[3]

Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport (IATA: IXL, ICAO: VILH) is an airport in Leh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.^[4] It is one of the highest commercial airports in the world at 3,256 m (10,682 ft) above mean sea level. The airport is named after 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, an Indian statesman and monk.

Due to the presence of mountain winds in the afternoon, all flights take off and land in the morning. The approach is challenging as it is unidirectional and has high terrain towards the eastern end of the airport. Airport security is tight with Indian Army patrols and no hand baggage is allowed on flights.

In February 2016, Indian Air Force handed the airport to Airport Authority of India. AAI will expand it for civilian purposes. ^[5]

Airport terminal

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air India	Delhi, Jammu, Srinagar
GoAir	Delhi, Mumbai, Jammu, Srinagar (begins 27 March 2016)
Jet Airways	Delhi

References

↑ "Traffic Statistics" (jsp). Aai.aero. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
↑ List of busiest airports in India by passenger traffic
↑ "VILH airport". airportnavfinder.com.
↑ "Leh Airport". indiaairport.com.
↑ IAF to vacate Leh airport, to develop base at alternate site

Airports in India

International

Central India	Gaya¹ Lucknow Patna¹ Ranchi¹ Varanasi

Eastern India	Bhubaneswar Guwahati Imphal Kolkata Siliguri¹

Northern India	Amritsar Chandigarh¹ Delhi Jaipur Srinagar

Southern India	Bangalore Chennai Coimbatore Hyderabad Kochi Kozhikode Madurai¹ Mangalore Port Blair Tiruchirappalli Thiruvananthapuram Visakhapatnam¹

Western India	Ahmedabad Goa Mumbai Nagpur Pune¹

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

Domestic

Central India

Bihar	Muzaffarpur Purnea Raxaul

Chhattisgarh	Bilaspur Jagdalpur Raipur

Jharkhand	Bokaro Chakulia Dhanbad Jamshedpur

Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal Gwalior Indore Jabalpur Khajuraho Panna Satna

Uttar Pradesh	Agra Akbarpur Airstrip Allahabad Aligarh Azamgarh Bareilly Faizabad Ghazipur Gorakhpur Jhansi Kanpur Kanpur Civil Kanpur IIT Kushinagar Lalitpur Meerut Moradabad Muirpur Rae Bareli Shravasti

Eastern India

Arunachal Pradesh	Along Daporijo Pasighat Tezu Zero

Assam	Dhubri Dibrugarh Jorhat North Lakhimpur Silchar Tezpur

Meghalaya	Shillong Tura

Mizoram	Aizawl

Nagaland	Dimapur

Odisha	Angul Barbil Brahmapur Bhubaneswar Cuttack Sambalpur Jajpur Jeypore Jharsuguda Kendujhar Lanjigarh Phulbani Rourkela Nuapada Balangir Bhawanipatna

Sikkim	Gangtok

Tripura	Agartala Kailashahar Kamalpur Khowai

West Bengal	Balurghat Behala Cooch Behar Asansol-Durgapur Malda

Northern India

Chandigarh	Chandigarh

Haryana	Bhiwani Hisar Kalka Karnal

Himachal Pradesh	Dharamsala Kulu Shimla

Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu Kargil Leh

Punjab	Ludhiana Pathankot

Rajasthan	Bikaner Jaisalmer Jodhpur Kishangarh Kota Udaipur

Uttarakhand	Dehradun Pantnagar Chinyalisaur Pithoragarh

Southern India

Andhra Pradesh	Cuddapah Puttaparthi Rajahmundry Tirupati Vijayawada

Karnataka	Belgaum Bellary Bijapur Gulbarga Hassan Hubli Karwar Mysore Shimoga Vidyanagar

Lakshadweep	Agatti

Puducherry	Pondicherry

Tamil Nadu	Salem Tuticorin Vellore

Western India

Daman and Diu	Daman Diu

Gujarat	Bhavnagar Bhuj Jamnagar Kandla Keshod Mehsana Palanpur Porbandar Rajkot Surat Vadodara

Maharashtra	Akola Aurangabad Baramati Dhule Hadapsar Jalgaon Karad Kolhapur Latur Mumbai Juhu Nanded Nasik Ozar Osmanabad Ratnagiri Shirdi Solapur Yavatmal Chandrapur

Proposed

International

Central	Jamshedpur Meerut

North	Ajmer Chandigarh Noida Kanpur Mathura

South	Aranmula Chennai Kannur Visakhapatnam

West	Dholera Navi Mumbai Pune Solapur

Domestic

South	Bidar Bijapur Donakonda Karaikal Karwar Nellore Nizamabad Warangal

East	Itanagar

West	Ankleshwar Sindhudurg

North	Adampur

Military

Indian Air Force

Western Air Command	Adampur AFS Ambala AFS Amritsar AFS Awantipur AFS Bathinda AFS Chandigarh AFS Halwara AFS Hindon AFS Leh AFS Palam AFS Pathankot AFS Bathinda AFS Sarsawa AFS Siachen Glacier AFS Sirsa AFS Srinagar AFS Udhampur AFS

Eastern Air Command	Agartala AFS Baghdogra AFS Barapani AFS Barrackpore AFS Chabua AFS Dum Dum AFS Hasimara AFS Jorhat AFS Kalaikunda AFS Kumbhigram AFS Mohanbari AFS Panagarh AFS Tawang AFS Tezpur AFS

Central Air Command	Agra AFS Bihta AFS Darbhanga AFS Bakshi Ka Talab AFS Bamrauli AFS Bareilly AFS Chakeri AFS Gorakhpur AFS Maharajpur AFS

Southern Air Command	Coimbatore AFS Madurai AFS Tambaram AFS Thanjavur AFS

South Western Air Command	Bhuj AFS Jaisalmer AFS Jamnagar AFS Jodhpur AFS Lohegaon AFS Nal-Bikaner AFS Naliya AFS Phalodi AFS Suratgarh AFS Uttarlai AFS Makarpura AFS

Training Command	Begumpet AFS Bidar AFS Dundigal AFS Hakimpet AFS Yelahanka AFS

Maintenance Command	Nagpur AFS Ojhar AFS

Indian Navy

Eastern Naval Command	Visakapatnam INS Dega Arakkonam INS Rajali Uchipuli INS Parundu

Western Naval Command	Dabolim INS Hansa Mumbai INS Shikra

Southern Naval Command	Kochi INS Garuda

Joint

Andaman and Nicobar Command	Car Nicobar AFS Port Blair INS Utkrosh Campbell Bay INS Baaz Diglipur NAS Shibpur NDA Gliderdrome (Training)

State-wise list of airports

Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Telangana Uttar Pradesh West Bengal

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