Srinagar Airport

Srinagar International Airport

IATA: SXR – ICAO: VISR

SXR
Location of airport in India

Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Airports Authority of India / Indian Air Force
Serves Srinagar
Location Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir,
 India
Elevation AMSL 1,655 m / 5,429 ft
Coordinates 33°59′13.7″N 074°46′27.3″E / 33.987139°N 74.774250°E / 33.987139; 74.774250
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
13/31 3,685 12,090 Asphalt
Statistics (2014-15)
Passenger movements 2,040,808 (Increase1.9%)
Aircraft movements 14,828 (Decrease3.0%)
Cargo tonnage 5,636 (Increase51.4%)
Source: AAI[1][2][3]

Srinagar International Airport (IATA: SXR, ICAO: VISR), also known as Sheikh ul Alam Airport (after a 15th-century Kashmiri mystic Sheikh Noor-ud-din Wali), is an international airport in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

History

The airport was granted international status by the Union Cabinet on 27 January 2005.[4] The airport had undergone extensive renovations, including improving the runway, a new terminal for departure and arrival, air bridges and other operational facilities, and was inaugurated on 14 February 2009 by an Air India domestic flight from Delhi.

Airlines and destinations

Jet Airways Boeing 737-700 with new livery at Srinagar Airport in 2015
Passenger
AirlinesDestinations
Air India Delhi, Goa, Jammu, Leh, Mumbai, Jeddah
GoAir Delhi, Jammu, Mumbai
IndiGo Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Jammu, Mumbai
Jet Airways Delhi, Jammu, Visakhapatnam
SpiceJetAmritsar, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa,[5] Jammu, Mumbai
VistaraDelhi, Goa (Begins 12th May 2016),Jammu

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lapangan Terbang Srinagar.
  1. ↑ "Traffic stats 2015" (PDF). AAI. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Traffic stats 2015" (PDF). AAI. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Traffic stats 2015" (PDF). AAI. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Srinagar airport gets international status". 27 January 2005. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "SpiceJet flight schedule". Retrieved 4 August 2015.

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