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{{Infobox Airport
| name = Patna Airport <br/> {{smaller|Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport}}
| nativename = {{lang|hi|जयप्रकाश नारायण हवाई अड्डा}}
| image = Patnaairport.jpg
| IATA = PAT
| ICAO = VEPT
| type = Public
| owner =
| operator = [[Airports Authority of India]]
| city-served = [[Patna]], [[India]]
| location = <!--only if different than above-->
| elevation-f = 170
| elevation-m = 52
| coordinates = {{Coord|25|35|37|N|085|05|31|E|region:IN_type:airport}}
| website = http://www.patnaairport.com
| metric-rwy = y
| r1-number = 07/25
| r1-length-m = 1,954
| r1-length-f = 6,410
| r1-surface = [[Asphalt]]
| footnotes = Sources: [[Airports Authority of India|AAI]] <ref name="AAI">{{cite web | url = http://airportsindia.org.in/allAirports/patna_techinfo.jsp | title = Patna Airport: Technical Information | publisher = [[Airports Authority of India]] | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref>, [[DAFIF]] <ref name="WAD">[http://www.worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?airport=VEPT Airport information for VEPT] from [[DAFIF]] (effective October 2006)</ref><ref name="GCM">{{GCM|PAT|source=DAFIF}}</ref>
}}

'''Patna Airport'''<ref name="AAI" /> {{airport codes|PAT|VEPT}}, also known as '''Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport, Patna'''<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=28410322&postcount=1627 | title = Photograph of airport terminal showing the name as "Jaiprakash Narayan International Airport, Patna | publisher = SkyscraperCity.com | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://patnapassion.com/Gallery%5CPatna_Airport2_1024x768.jpg | title = Photograph of airport entrance showing the name as "Jai Prakash Narayan Intl. Airport, Patna | publisher = PatnaPassion.com | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref> ({{lang-hi|जयप्रकाश नारायण हवाई अड्डा}}), is an [[airport]] located {{convert|5|km|NM|lk=out}}<ref name="AAI" /> southwest of [[Patna]], the capital of state of [[Bihar]] in [[India]]. The airport is categorised as a restricted international airport by the [[Airports Authority of India]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} It is named after [[Jayaprakash Narayan|"Lok Nayak" Jayaprakash Narayan]] (1902–1979), an Indian independence activist and political leader.Patna airport is the one of the major airport of Eastern Central India.

==Facilities==
The airport covers an [[area]] of {{convert|254|acres|lk=on}} and resides at an [[elevation]] of {{convert|170|ft|0}} above [[mean sea level]]. It has one [[runway]] designated 07/25 with an [[asphalt]] surface measuring {{convert|1954|x|45|m|0}}.<ref name="AAI" /><ref name="WAD" />. Recently, the Patna airport was declared as the fastest growing airport among the Tier-II cities. Due to this, a lot of new low budget carriers have started flights from Patna.
[[File:Indigopatna.jpg‎|thumb|right|Landing at [[Patna]] Airport ]]

==Future==
Recently due to short runway and no way to increase it, the government has planned a new airport at Bihita which will be connected with a expressway. It may also shift to Punpun or Bikramganj if Bihita fails. At Bihita there is an airforce base which can be expanded and can fulfill the demands of the new airport.

==Airlines and destinations==
The following airlines provide scheduled passenger service to destinations in India:

{{Airport-dest-list
| [[Air India]] | Delhi ,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://home.airindia.in/SBCMS/Webpages/Where-we-fly.aspx?mid=26 | title = Where we fly | publisher = [[Air India]] (merged with [[Indian Airlines]]) | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://home.airindia.in/SBCMS/Webpages/Flight-Schedules.aspx?mid=18 | title = Flight Schedules | publisher = [[Air India]] (merged with [[Indian Airlines]]) | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref>
| [[IndiGo]] | Bangalore ,Chennai , Mumbai, Delhi , Hyderabad , Kolkata , Lucknow , Mumbai , Ahmedabad <ref>{{cite web | url = http://book.goindigo.in/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi?module=C3&page=ROUTEMAP | title = Route Map | publisher = [[IndiGo]] | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref>
| [[Go Air]] |Delhi,Mumbai,Bangalore,Pune <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www. http://www.goair.in/ | title = Our Network | publisher = [[Go Air]] |}}</ref>
| [[Jet Airways]] | Delhi,Kolkata <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.jetairways.com/EN/IN/PopUps/RouteMapFlash.aspx | title = Route Map | publisher = [[Jet Airways]] | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref>
| [[JetLite]] |Delhi, Kolkata<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.jetlite.com/in/ournetwork.aspx | title = Our Network | publisher = [[JetLite]] | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref>
|[[Jet Airways Konnect]]|Delhi,Kolkata
| {{nowrap|[[Kingfisher Airlines]]}} | Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ranchi <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.flykingfisher.com/plan-book/schedule.aspx | title = Flight Schedule | publisher = [[Kingfisher Airlines]] | accessdate = 31 March 2010}}</ref>
}}

==Incidents==
On July 17, 2000, [[Alliance Air]] [[Flight 7412]] crashed near the airport prior to landing, killing 60 people.<ref>{{ASN accident|id=20000717-0}}</ref>

05 September 2007 - Air Arabia Sharjah-Katmandu flight G9537 emergency landing at [[ Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.aai.aero/allAirports/Patna_airpo_gi.jsp Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport] at ''[[Airport Authority of India]]''

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