Ludhiana Airport

Ludhiana Airport
IATA: LUH ICAO: VILD
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Punjab
Operator	Airports Authority of India
Serves	Ludhiana
Location	Sahnewal, Ludhiana district, Punjab, India
Elevation AMSL	254 m / 834 ft
Coordinates	30°51′17″N 075°57′09″E
Website	Ludhiana Airport
Map
LUH Location of airport in Punjab Show map of Punjab LUH LUH (India) Show map of India
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 1,463 4,800 Asphalt
Statistics (April 2023 - March 2024)
Passengers 987 ( 401%) Aircraft movements 214 ( 181.5%) Cargo tonnage —
Source: AAI[1][2][3]

Ludhiana Airport (IATA: LUH, ICAO: VILD) is a domestic airport serving the city of Ludhiana in Punjab, India. It is located near the town of Sahnewal, 12 km (7.5 mi) south-east of Ludhiana on the Grand Trunk Road. There is a flight training club based in the airport.

Development

The airport is currently used for government flights, air force exercises and training flights. The only commercial airline the airport had was Alliance Air, which connected it to Delhi with regular flights till April 2021. Since then, the airport remained closed, until when in September 2023, the low-cost regional carrier, FlyBig, restarted flight operations to Dehradun with a stopover at Ghaziabad on 6 September 2023, as part of the government's UDAN Scheme.^[4]

As the airport is too small to accommodate future traffic and demands, and due to zero scopes available to expand the airport because of urban growth around it, in 2019, the Ministry of Civil Aviation decided to build a passenger terminal at the existing Indian Air Force's base at Halwara, located 34 km (21 mi) south-west of Ludhiana. After its completion in the end of 2023, this airport will be closed for commercial operations.^[5][6]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
FlyBig	Dehradun, Ghaziabad[4]

See also

• List of airports in Punjab
• Ludhiana International Airport

References

1. "Annexure III – Passenger Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
2. "Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
3. "Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
4. Jain, Nitin (4 September 2023). "Ludhiana gets Dehradun, Delhi air link from this week". The Tribune. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
5. "Ludhiana international airport halwara: GLADA takes possession of land at Halwara for construction of international civil terminal". Indian Express Limited. Ludhiana. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
6. Jain, Nitin (19 August 2023). "Flights from upcoming Halwara international airport soon: Centre". The Tribune. Retrieved 1 September 2023.

External links

• Official site at the Airports Authority of India