Bathinda Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military/Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Indian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Operator | Airports Authority of India | ||||||||||
| Serves | Bathinda | ||||||||||
| Location | Bhisiana, Bathinda district, Punjab, India | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1975[1] | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 201 m / 662 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°16′12″N 74°45′20″E / 30.27000°N 74.75556°E | ||||||||||
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Bathinda Airport (IATA: BUP, ICAO: VIBT) is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force base serving the city of Bathinda and the Malwa region in Punjab, India. It is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north-west of the city in Bhisiana and near the village of Killi nihal singh wala. The airport operates commercial flights under the Airports Authority of India as a civil enclave of the Bhisiana Air Force Station. Alliance Air was the only commercial airline that operated flights from the airport to Delhi from December 2016 till 2020. Since then, the airport remained inactive, until when in September 2023, FlyBig, restarted flight operations by starting flights to Ghaziabad and later to Dehradun from 18 September 2023.[5][6]
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- ^ "Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
- ^ "Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
- ^ Bhasin, Sukhmeet (11 September 2023). "Flights from Bathinda Airport to begin soon". The Tribune. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ Jha, Abhijay (14 September 2023). "Two routes to Punjab from Hindon terminal now, but services to Dehradun suspended". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann will formally inaugurate the route on September 18, Ratan Laxmanro Ambhore, the head of ground operations at Flybig, told TOI.