Deoghar, Kushinaghar And 23 Others: These Airports in India Do Not Have Night Landing Facility | FULL LIST

Kushinagar airport, Shimla airport and recently inaugurated Deoghar airport in Jharkhand are among the list of 25 airports, the ministry of civil aviation said on Monday in the Rajya Sabha

New Delhi:  As many as 25 functional airports in the country do not have night landing facilities. Kushinagar airport, Shimla airport and recently inaugurated Deoghar airport in Jharkhand are among the list of 25 airports, the ministry of civil aviation said on Monday in the Rajya Sabha

The ministry asserted that the up-gradation or modernisation of airports, including provision of night landing facility is a continuous process and is undertaken by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and other airport operators from time to time depending on the availability of land, commercial viability, socio- economic considerations, traffic demand and willingness of airlines to operate to/from such airports etc.

“Presently night landing facility which is purely demand and need based on operational requirement of airlines and availability of land is not available at 25 operational airports with scheduled flight operations,” said the ministry.

Full List of Airports Not Having Night Landing Facility 

• Kushinagar Airport (Uttar Pradesh)
• Shimla airport (Himachal Pradesh)
• Deoghar Airport (Jharkhand)
• Kullu-Manali Airport (Himachal Pradesh)
• Dharamsala Airport (Himachal Pradesh)
• Bilaspur Airport  (Chhattisgarh)
• Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh)
• Kalaburagi  (Karnataka)
• Kolhapur Airport (Maharashtra)
• Sindhudurg Airport (Maharashtra)
• Ludhiana (Punjab)

AAI has undertaken installation of a night landing facility at Kolhapur airport. A team of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has carried out the inspection of the airport on June 10, 2022. AAI has already initiated action for compliance of the observations made by DGCA during the inspection.

The country has over 100 operational airports and officials said that the airports not having night landing facilities are mostly those recording lower air passenger traffic. Airports Authority of India, which manages most of the airports in India, takes up a particular one for consideration for providing night landing facilities, when airlines show an interest during night operations.

(With agency inputs)