Madurai Airport
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Madurai Airport in 2012
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Airports Authority of India | ||||||||||
| Serves | Madurai | ||||||||||
| Location | Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 136 m / 446 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 09°50′01″N 078°05′22″E / 9.83361°N 78.08944°ECoordinates: 09°50′01″N 078°05′22″E / 9.83361°N 78.08944°E | ||||||||||
| Website | Madurai airport | ||||||||||
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Source: AAI
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| Passengers movements | 9,69,460( 27.46%) |
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| Aircraft movements | 11,462(29.85%) |
| Cargo tonnage | 923( 4.45%) |
Madurai Airport (IATA: IXM, ICAO: VOMD) is an airport serving Madurai, its surrounding districts in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu with direct flights to Dubai / Colombo currently. Located about 12 km (7.5 mi) from the Madurai railway station and near State Highway 37, the airport was established in 1957. It is the fourth-busiest airport in the state of Tamil Nadu after Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli and the fastest growing airport in the state. Madurai airport will become an international terminal in every sense by April 2017.
Madurai airfield was first used by the Royal Air Force in World War II in 1942. The first passenger flight was a Fokker Friendship aircraft on the Madras – Madurai – Trivandrum – Madurai – Madras route in 1956.
It was identified as one of 35 non-metro airports for modernization, and thus the new integrated terminal building was inaugurated on 12 September 2010. The airport was notified as customs airport. The notification, issued on 31 December 2011, came into effect from 1 January 2012. In a historic event, two chartered flights from Malaysia landed at the airport on 25 August 2012, making them the first international aircraft that landed in the temple city. The first commercial international flight started on 20 September 2012 by Spice Jet commencing its maiden service to Colombo. Spicejet started its second international flight from Madurai to Dubai on 22 November 2013.
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