Pathankot Airport

Pathankot Airport
IATA: IXP – ICAO: VIPK IXP Location of airport in India
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		Indian Air Force
Serves		Pathankot
Location		Pathankot (Punjab)
Elevation AMSL		1,017 ft / 310 m
Coordinates		32°14′01″N 075°38′04″E / 32.23361°N 75.63444°E / 32.23361; 75.63444
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
01/19	8,970	2,734	Asphalt

Pathankot Airport (IATA: IXP, ICAO: VIPK) is a military airport located in Pathankot in the Gurdaspur district in the state of Punjab, India. The airfield is mostly used by the Indian Air Force. Nos 26 and 108 Squadrons operate from the airfield under the control of No. 18 Wing IAF and Western Air Command.^[1] They fly Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighter aircraft. It is heavily guarded as many squadrons are located here. The airport lies inside the IAF cantonment.

Commercial flights have recently started, linking it with Kulu and Delhi.

Mr. Praful Kumar has inaugurated this airport at Pathankot on 21st of November 2006. This airport serves national flights only.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

• Airport information for VIPK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Pathankot
• Pathankot Airport

v d e Airports in India   International Ahmedabad: Sardar Patel Airport Amritsar: Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee Airport (Raja Sansi)1 Bangalore: Bengaluru Airport (Devanahalli) Chennai (Madras): Chennai Airport (Meenambakkam) Coimbatore Airport (Peelamedu)1 Delhi: Indira Gandhi Airport (Palam) Gaya Airport1 Goa: Dabolim Airport1 Guwahati: Gopinath Bordoloi Airport (Borjhar)1 Hyderabad: Rajiv Gandhi Airport (Shamshabad) Jaipur: Sanganer Airport1 Kochi (Cochin): Cochin Airport (Nedumbassery) Kolkata (Calcutta): Subhash Chandra Bose Airport (Dum Dum) Kozhikode (Calicut): Calicut Airport (Karipur) Lucknow: Amausi Airport1 Madurai: Madurai Airport1 Mangalore Airport (Bajpe)1 Mumbai (Bombay): Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport (Sahar) Nagpur: Babasaheb Ambedkar Airport (Sonegaon)1 Pune Airport (Lohegaon)1 Siliguri: Bagdogra Airport1 Srinagar: Sheikh ul Alam Airport1 Trichy: Tiruchirapalli Airport1 Trivandrum Airport Varanasi (Benares): Babatpur Airport1   Domestic Central India Bihar Jogbani Airport Muzzafarpur Airport Patna: Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport Purnea Airport Raxaul Airport Chhattisgarh Bilaspur Airport Jagdalpur Airport Raipur: Mana Airport Jharkhand Chakulia Airport Jamshedpur: Sonari Airport Ranchi: Birsa Munda Airport Madhya Pradesh Barwani Airport Bhopal: Raja Bhoj Airport Gwalior Airport Indore: Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport Jabalpur Airport Khajuraho Airport Panna Airport Satna Airport Ujjain Airport Orissa Bhubaneswar: Biju Patnaik Airport Hirakud Airport Jharsuguda Airport Rourkela Airport Uttar Pradesh Agra: Kheria Airport Akbarpur Airstrip Allahabad: Bamrauli Airport Aligarh Airport Azamgarh Airport Bareilly Airport Faizabad: Saket Airport Ghazipur: Andhau Airport Gorakhpur Airport Jhansi Airport Kanpur: Chakeri Airport Kanpur: Civil Airport Kanpur: IIT Airport Kushinagar: Kasia Airport Lalitpur Airport Meerut Airport Moradabad: Rampur Airport Muirpur Airport Rae Bareli: Fursatganj Airport Shravasti Airport Eastern India Arunachal Pradesh Along Airport Daporijo Airport Pasighat Airport Tezu Airport Zero Airport Assam Dibrugarh: Mohanbari Airport Jorhat: Rowriah Airport North Lakhimpur: Lilabari Airport Silchar: Kumbhirgram Airport Tezpur: Salonibari Airport Manipur Imphal: Tulihal Airport Meghalaya Rupsi Airport Shella Airport Shillong: Umroi Airport Mizoram Aizawl: Lengpui Airport Nagaland Dimapur Airport Tripura Agartala: Singerbhil Airport Kailashahar Airport Kamalpur Airport Khowai Airport West Bengal Balurghat Airport Behala Airport Cooch Behar Airport English Bazar: Malda Airport Northern India Chandigarh Chandigarh Airport Himachal Pradesh Dharamsala: Gaggal Airport Kulu: Bhuntar Airport Shimla Airport Jammu and Kashmir Jammu: Satwari Airport Kargil Airport Leh: Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport Punjab Ludhiana: Sahnewal Airport Pathankot Airport Rajasthan Ajmer Airport Bikaner: Nal Airport Jaisalmer Airport Jodhpur Airport Kota Airport Udaipur: Maharana Pratap Airport (Dabok) Uttarakhand Dehradun: Jolly Grant Airport Nainital: Pantnagar Airport Southern India Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Blair: Vir Savarkar Airport Andhra Pradesh Cuddapah Airport Donakonda Airport Kakinada Airport Nadirgul Airport Puttaparthi: Sri Sathya Sai Airport Rajahmundry Airport Tirupati Airport Vijayawada Airport Visakhapatnam Airport Warangal Airport Karnataka Belgaum: Sambre Airport Bellary Airport Bijapur Airport Hassan Airport Hubli Airport Mysore: Mandkalli Airport Vidyanagar Airport Lakshadweep Agatti Aerodrome Pondicherry Pondicherry Airport Tamil Nadu Salem Airport Tuticorin Airport Vellore Airport Western India Daman and Diu Daman Airport Diu Airport Gujarat Bhavnagar Airport Bhuj: Rudra Mata Airport Jamnagar: Govardhanpur Airport Kandla Airport Keshod Airport Palanpur Airport Porbandar Airport Rajkot Airport Surat Airport Uttarlai Airport Vadodara: Harni Airport Mehsana Airport Maharashtra Akola: Shivani Airport Aurangabad: Chikkalthana Airport Baramati Airport Hadapsar Airport Kolhapur Airport Latur Airport Mumbai: Juhu Aerodrome Nanded: Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Airport Nasik: Gandhinagar Airport Nasik: Ozar Airport Osmanabad Airport Ratnagiri Airport Shirdi Airport Solapur Airport Yeoatmal Airport   Military Indian Air Force Agra AFS Allahabad AFS Ambala Bagdogra Bareilly AFS Bhuj Rudra Mata Car Nicobar Chabua Chandigarh Dimapur Dundigul Guwahati Gorakhpur AFB Halwara Hindon AFS Kanpur AFS Lucknow AFS Lohegaon Kumbhirgram Palam Safdarjung Saharanpur AFB Sulur Tambaram AFS Tanjore Yelahanka Indian Navy Arakkonam INS Rajali Dabolim INS Hansa Kochi INS Garuda Mumbai INS Shikra Port Blair INS Utkrosh Uchipuli INS Parundu Visakapatnam INS Dega ^1 Designated as a "restricted international airport" ("customs airport"); a limited number of international flights are permitted at these airports.