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Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport

Coordinates: 26°06′22″N 091°35′09″E / 26.10611°N 91.58583°E / 26.10611; 91.58583
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Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
LGB International Airport, Guwahati
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGovernment of Assam
OperatorAirports Authority of India
ServesGuwahati
LocationBorjhar
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL49 m / 162 ft
Coordinates26°06′22″N 091°35′09″E / 26.10611°N 91.58583°E / 26.10611; 91.58583
Websitewww.aai.aero/en/airports/guwahati
Map
GAU is located in Assam
GAU
GAU
GAU is located in India
GAU
GAU
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
02/20 3,110 10,200 Asphalt
Statistics (April 2017 - March 2018)
Passengers4668053 (Increase23.2%)
Aircraft movements41172 (Increase8.7%)
Cargo tonnage22345 (Increase29.3%)
Source: AAI[1][2][3]

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (IATA: GAU, ICAO: VEGT), also known as Guwahati International Airport and formerly as 'Borjhar Airport', is the primary international airport of the North-Eastern States of India. It is located at Borjhar, 26 km (16 mi) from Dispur, the capital city of the state of Assam and 28 km (18 mi) from Guwahati and is named after Late Gopinath Bordoloi, a freedom fighter and the first Chief Minister of Assam after India's independence. The airport is managed by Airports Authority of India and also serves as an Indian Air Force base.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsRefs.
AirAsia IndiaBengaluru, Delhi, Imphal, Kolkata[4]
Air IndiaBengaluru, Delhi, Imphal, Kolkata[citation needed]
Alliance AirDimapur, Kolkata, Lilabari, Pasighat, Tezpur[citation needed]
Druk AirBangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Paro, Singapore[citation needed]
GoAirBagdogra, Delhi, Kolkata[citation needed]
IndiGoAgartala, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lilabari, Mumbai, Varanasi[5][5]
Jet Airways Aizawl, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Dehradun (begins 13 February 2019), Delhi, Imphal, Jorhat, Kolkata, Mumbai, Silchar[citation needed]
SpiceJet Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lilabari, Pakyong, Patna, Silchar [6]
VistaraBagdogra, Delhi [citation needed]

Cargo

AirlinesDestinationsRefs.
Spicejet Hong Kong, Dubai[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-III" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 1 May 2018. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-II" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 1 May 2018. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-IV" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 1 May 2018. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  4. ^ PTI @moneycontrolcom. "AirAsia India adds 18th plane, to expand services from Kolkata". Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  5. ^ a b "IndiGo introduces direct flights from Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Kochi, Varanasi to Guwahati." NENow. Accessed 8 October 2018.
  6. ^ "SpiceJet flight schedules". www.spicejet.com.
  7. ^ "SG(GAU-HKG) Cargo".
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