Indian Aviation

Visakhapatnam Airport
(IATA code: VTZ - ICAO code: VEVZ)

Growth at Vizag airport, a naval air station (INS Dega), was a decade ago bogged by inadequate landing facilities for jet aircraft due to a short runway and the lack of ILS navigation facilities. This changed in 2007 with the opening of a new 10,000 ft runway with ILS landing facilities. Direct pre-COVID international connections included Bangkok (Don Mueang) served by Nok Air and Thai AirAsia, Dubai via Hyderabad (Air India), Kuala Lumpur (Air Asia) and Singapore (Silk Air). On the domestic front, recently launched Akasa Air plans to serve Vizag wef Dec 12 '22 with 2 daily rotations from Bengaluru.

A new 22 000 m² passenger terminal (ca 8 times the size of the old terminal), constructed at a cost of ₹ 970 m, was inaugurated in 2009. The contemporary glass and steel terminal features three aerobridges. The old terminal building is used as a cargo terminal. Vizag airport handled 2.85 million passengers (incl. 150 000 passengers on international flights) and 23 695 civil aircraft movements (ca 65 / day) in the year ended March 2019.

Visakhapatnam Airport Photo Gallery


A pair of Indian/Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 classics.


The new terminal under construction (June 2007).



Boeing 737-200's were previously used on flights from Vizag to Mumbai, Delhi, Raipur, Hyderabad and Chennai. Air India now operates Airbus A319/A320 jet and ATR-72 turboprop aircraft on flights to Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Port Blair, Tirupati and Vijayawada.