About Birsa Munda Airport

Birsa Munda Airport (IATA: IXR, ICAO: VERC) is a public domestic airport serving the city of Ranchi and is managed by Airports Authority of India (AAI). It is located in Hinoo locality, approximately 5 km from the centre of the city. It is the 27th busiest airport in India. Hatia Railway station is located at a distance of a kilometre from BMA. BMA used to be a small airport in terms of service, however with the growth of air traffic in India, BMA has also witnessed unprecedented growth in the last 3 years and several budget airlines have added it to their route.

The airport recently got aerobridges in departure side. Hajj pilgrims from Bihar, Jharkhand annually go Jeddah from this airport. For this Air India arrange special flights in September to October daily. Airport is also trying to connect Bokaro, Jamshedpur by a regular bus service directly from airport. Frequent travellers using this airport can now avoid long queues at ticket counters by using its newly launched self-check-in kiosk.

To get the boarding pass, a passenger has to feed in the PNR number into the system and select a seat of their choice from the seating chart. Initially, the facility will cater to passengers of Jet Airways and IndiGo but soon the number of kiosk members will increase to cater more passengers.

A new larger, Integrated Terminal with facilities for customs and immigration, duty-free shops, travel desks, lounges, etc. was inaugurated on 24 March 2013 in a function attended by Mr. Ajit Singh, Minister of Civil Aviation, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, Jharkhand governor Syed Ahmed, Ranchi MP Subodh Kant Sahay and Rajya Sabha MP Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu. The new international terminal is now ready which is spread over 19,676 square metres of land furnished with equipment imported from China, Germany and Singapore, and has the capacity to handle 500 domestic and 200 international passengers.

The AAI also announced the construction of three more parking bays, thereby making it the first Tier-II airport in India to have 8 planned parking bays. The old terminal is no longer used and remains closed for most of the time. It was shut down at midnight on 23 March 2013. The old terminal now has been converted to cargo terminal and was inaugurated on 10 February 2017 by Chief Minister of Jharkhand Raghubar Das.

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