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| Airport type | Public–private partnership | ||||||||||
| Owner | Airports Authority of India | ||||||||||
| Operator | TRV (Kerala) International Airport Limited[1] | ||||||||||
| Serves | Thiruvananthapuram | ||||||||||
| Location | Chacka, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1932 | ||||||||||
| Operating base for | Air India Express | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4 m / 13 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 8°29′N 76°55′E / 8.48°N 76.92°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
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Thiruvananthapuram International Airport (IATA: TRV, ICAO: VOTV), is an international airport that serves Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, India. Established in 1932, it is the first airport in the state of Kerala and the fifth international airport of India, officially declared in 1991.[5] It is the operating base of Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo and SpiceJet. The airport, spread over an area of 800 acres (320 ha), the airport is approximately 3.7 km (2.3 mi) due west from the city centre and the Padmanabhaswamy Temple,[5] 16 km (9.9 mi) from Kovalam beach, 13 km (8.1 mi) from Technopark and 21 km (13 mi) from the under-construction Vizhinjam International Seaport. It shares a visible proximity to Shankumugham Beach making it the nearest airport to a water body in India as it is, just about 0.6 miles (approx. 1 km) away from the Arabian Sea. It is also the southern most international/domestic airport in the Indian subcontinent.
The airport is the second-busiest airport in the state of Kerala, eighth-busiest airport in India in terms of international traffic[6] and the 16th overall in India, as of 2024. In the financial year 2023-24, the airport handled over 4.4 million passengers, with a total of over 30,000 aircraft movements.[2][3]
In addition to civil operations, the airport headquarters the Southern Air Command (India) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Indian Coast Guard for their operations. IAF has an exclusive apron to handle all their operations. Thiruvananthapuram Airport also caters to the Rajiv Gandhi Academy for Aviation Technology, which carries out pilot training activities.[7] The airport hosts Air India's narrow body maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) unit consisting of twin hangars for servicing Boeing 737-type aircraft, servicing mostly Air India Express aircraft.
- ^ "TRV (Kerala) International Airport". cbonds.com. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Annexure III – Passenger Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Thiruvananathapuram". Airports Authority of India. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Cial Retains Spot As Third-busiest Airport". The Times of India. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ "Rajiv Gandhi Academy For Aviation Technology - Thiruvananthapuram". Rajiv Gandhi Academy For Aviation Technology. 13 July 2018. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019.