Visakhapatnam Airport
(IATA code: VTZ - ICAO code: VEVZ)
Growth at Vizag airport, a naval air station (INS Dega), was till recently bogged by inadequate landing facilities for jet aircraft due to a short runway and the lack of ILS navigation facilities. This changed in June 2007 with the opening of a new 10,000 ft runway with ILS landing facilities. Civil air operating hours, now limited to daylight hours, are expected to be extended from 8 AM to 8 PM. Night landing facilities for civil operations became operational in March '08.
A new 20,000 m² passenger terminal is under construction with an investment of Rs 950 m and would add substantial passenger handling capacity at the airport as the current terminal is offers quite limited passenger handling capacity.. The new terminal is planned to be in operation by the end of 2008. The terminal will feature three aerobridges. The current terminal building will be converted into a cargo terminal. Airlines serving Vizag include Indian (3xdaily), Kingfisher (2xdaily), Kingfisher Red (3xdaily), Paramount (3xdaily), Jet Airways (1xdaily), JetLite (4xdaily) and SpiceJet (2xdaily). Silk Air has shown interest in starting a direct air service from Singapore to Vizag. Vizag airport handled 502,000 passengers and 9,788 civil aircraft movements in the year ended March 2008.
| Visakhapatnam Airport Photo Gallery |
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 A pair of Indian/Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 classics. |
 The new terminal under construction (June 2007). |
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 Boeing 737-200's were previously used on flights from Vizag to Mumbai, Delhi, Raipur, Hyderabad and Chennai. Indian (Air India) now operates Airbus A319 and Bombardier CRJ aircraft on flights to Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. |