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{{short description|Domestic airport in Gandhidham, Gujarat, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox airport
| name = Kandla Airport
| image = Kandla Airport building.jpg
| image-width =
| caption =
| IATA = IXY
| ICAO = VAKE
| pushpin_map = India Gujarat #India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Gujarat
| pushpin_label = '''IXY'''
| pushpin_label_position = right
| type = Public
| owner =
| operator = [[Airports Authority of India]]
| owner-oper =
| city-served = [[Kandla]], [[Gandhidham]]
| location = Anjar, Gandhidham, [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
| elevation-f = 96
| elevation-m = 29
| coordinates = {{coord|23|06|46|N|070|06|01|E|type:airport}}
| website = [https://www.aai.aero/en/airports/kandla Kandla Airport]
| metric-rwy =
| r1-number = 05/23
| r1-length-f = 4,997
| r1-length-m = 1,523
| r1-surface = [[Concrete]]
| stat-year = April 2024 – March 2025
| stat1-header = Passengers
| stat1-data = 48,408 ({{decrease}} 39.9%)
| stat2-header = Aircraft movements
| stat2-data = 822 ({{decrease}} 37.3%)
| stat3-header = Cargo tonnage
| stat3-data = —
| footnotes = Source: [[Airports Authority of India|AAI]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Annexure III – Passenger Data|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k25Annex3.pdf|website=aai.aero|access-date=30 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k25Annex2.pdf|website=aai.aero|access-date=30 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k25Annex4.pdf|website=aai.aero|access-date=30 April 2025}}</ref>
}}

'''Kandla Airport''' {{Airport codes|IXY|VAKE}} is a [[domestic airport]] serving the cities of [[Kandla]] and [[Gandhidham]] in [[Gujarat, India|Gujarat]], [[India]]. It is located in Anjar, {{cvt|20|km}} northwest of Kandla and {{cvt|7.5|km}} northwest of Gandhidham.

==History==
The airport was built in the late 1950s. [[Indian Airlines]] commenced passenger operations by deploying [[Douglas DC-3]] aircraft, and later in 1960 using their [[Fokker F-27 Friendship]] aircraft and by [[Hawker Siddeley HS 748]] aircraft, and was also followed by [[Vayudoot]]. [[Gujarat Airways]] also used to operate flights to [[Mumbai]] until the airline ceased operations in 1999.<ref name="ie05">{{cite news|title=Indian Air Farce|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/62777/|access-date=29 February 2012|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=16 January 2005}}</ref> After a gap of seven years, commercial services resumed in October 2006 with [[Air Deccan]] operating daily services to Mumbai, using an [[ATR-72]] aircraft, until the airline ceased operations in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=Air Deccan connects yet another unconnected sector – brings Kandla into the aviation map|url=http://peanuts.aero/low_cost_airline_news/airline/186/59/Air+Deccan+connects+yet+another+unconnected+sector+%26ndash%3B+brings+Kandla+into+the+aviation+map|access-date=29 February 2012|newspaper=Peanuts! Online|date=4 October 2006|archive-date=25 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725003726/http://peanuts.aero/low_cost_airline_news/airline/186/59/Air+Deccan+connects+yet+another+unconnected+sector+%26ndash%3B+brings+Kandla+into+the+aviation+map|url-status=dead}}</ref> After five years, [[SpiceJet]] commenced service again in July 2017 using the [[Bombardier Q400]] aircraft to Mumbai, and to [[Delhi]] from 2018.

==Notable people==
Farhan Memon is a poet and Lyricist who works in Bollywood and Gujarati Movies born in Anjar Kutch. He wrote lyrics for many hit songs including 'Rang Dariya' from movie CHEHRE Starring Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi. He worked at Kandla Airport several years. <ref>https://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/stirred-not-shaken--the-perfect-cocktail/81821968.html</ref>

==Facilities==
[[File:Plane refuelling at Kandla Airport.jpg|thumb|Apron area of the airport]]
The airport is spread over an area of 268.2 acres, and has a terminal building capable of handling 100 passengers at a time. Its [[airport ramp|apron]] measuring 90 m x 60 m has two parking bays for [[ATR-72]] type aircraft. The airport has navigational facilities and landing aids like [[Non-directional beacon|NDB]] and [[Precision Approach Path Indicator|PAPI]].

==Airlines and destinations==

{{Airport destination list
|[[SpiceJet]]|[[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport|Mumbai]]
}}

== Statistics ==
{{Airport-Statistics|iata=IXY}}

== See also ==

* [[List of airports in Gujarat]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://aai.aero/allAirports/kandla_generalinfo.jsp Kandla Airport at the Airports Authority of India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219012526/http://aai.aero/allAirports/kandla_generalinfo.jsp |date=19 February 2008 }}

{{Airports in India}}

[[Category:Airports in Gujarat]]
[[Category:Transport in Kutch district]]
[[Category:Gandhidham]]
[[Category:Airports established in 1960]]
[[Category:1960 establishments in East Punjab]]
[[Category:20th-century architecture in India]]
[[Category:Airports Authority of India]]

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Davidwnl at 16:01, 17 March 2026