Pondicherry Airport

Pondicherry Airport (IATA: PNY, ICAO: VOPC) is an airport located at Lawspet in Puducherry, a Union territory of India. The airport has charter flights and the local flying training school operating out of this Airport. The Puducherry Government has decided to expand the Pondicherry Airport to accommodate larger aircraft and commissioned a new Terminal building.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the local Government and the Airports Authority of India in June 2007 for expansion of the Airport. In the first phase, the runway was extended by 260 metres to enable landing of ATR type of aircraft.

Pondicherry Airport has one asphalt runway, oriented 07/25, 1500 metres long and 30 metres wide. It has a 100 by 150 metre apron and its new terminal building can handle 300 passengers during peak hours. Navigational aids at Pondicherry include an Aerodrome beacon.

The second phase which was planned had been halted due to low response for the Pondicherry Airport.

The new terminal was inaugurated on 17 January 2013 and it is managed and controlled by Airports Authority of India (AAI).

Airlines and Destinations

Alliance Air (formerly known as Air India Regional), a subsidiary of Air India, had been operating flights to and from Bengaluru on its 48-seater ATR 42-320 on all days of the week except Wednesdays. It had started its operations on April 14, 2015 but has temporary suspended its services from October 15 on same year due to low response.

As according to Alliance Air, the flight operations will resume when the tourism season set to peak.

Currently, SpiceJet operates scheduled flight services to and from this Airport to various major cities in India as stated below:

Airlines	Destinations
SpiceJet	Bengaluru, Hyderabad

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