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The airport was initially used for limited domestic flights, mainly to Mumbai and Bengaluru. The operation of international flights started in 2006 with Air India Express flying to Dubai. Mangalore Airport was a customs airport [10] for six years, from 3 October 2006 to 3 October 2012, before it was granted the status of international airport. [11]
Mangalore Airport was established in 1939 for training Royal Australian Air Force pilots. In 1947 it became a civil airfield, and until 1970 it was an alternative to Essendon Airport. [2] From November 2007 to April 2009, the airport was home to the Australian Airline Pilot Academy (AAPA), owned by Regional Express Airlines. [3]
Indira Gandhi International Airport: Hub [3] [10] India Dabolim: Dabolim Airport [11] India Surat: Surat Airport [12] India (Jammu and Kashmir) Jammu: Jammu Airport [13] Srinagar: Srinagar Airport [14] India Ranchi: Birsa Munda Airport [3] India Bangalore: Kempegowda International Airport: Hub [15] Mangalore: Mangaluru International Airport
Mangalore is the only city in Karnataka to have all modes of transport—air, road, rail and sea. [231] Jet bridge at the Mangalore International Airport. Mangalore International Airport (IATA: IXE, ICAO: VOML) is located near Bajpe-Kenjar and about 13 km (8 mi) north-east of Mangalore city centre. [232]
Mangalore's location in the Indian state of Karnataka makes it accessible by all forms of transport: road, rail, air and sea. It is the largest city in the Coastal Karnataka region, and is the only city in Karnataka and one among the six cities in India to have an International Airport, a Major Seaport, railway & road connectivities.
India's busiest airports is the list of top fifty busiest commercially operational airports in the country.The tables below contain the busiest airports ranked by the following parameters as per the data published by Airports Authority of India.
Air India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled international flight from Dubai International Airport, Dubai to Mangalore International Airport, Mangalore.On 22 May 2010, the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operating the flight crashed on landing at Mangalore.
The 2,500-metre runway of the Lengpui airport is unique in that it has many hilly streams running underneath. [9] The airport is one of the airports in India that has a table top runway (others being Kozhikode, Shimla, Mangalore) [10] which creates an optical illusion that requires a very precise approach from the pilot. [11]