Birsa Munda Airport is a domestic airport serving

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, the capital city of the

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. It is named after the Indian tribal freedom fighter

Birsa Munda Birsa Munda (15 November 1875 – 9 June 1900) was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, and folk hero who belonged to the Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) i ...

, and is currently managed by

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. The airport is located in Hinoo, approximately from the city center. The airport sprawls over an area of 1,568 acres. The airport is used by more than 1.2 million passengers annually and is the 19th busiest airport in India.

Terminals

Integrated terminal

The new integrated passenger terminal building at the airport was inaugurated by the then civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on 24 March 2013. The terminal building spreads over and was constructed at a cost of . It has two aero-bridges and six escalators and the equipment used was imported from China, Germany and

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. The terminal has a capacity to handle 500 domestic and 200 international passengers at a time. In March 2013, the tax on aviation turbine fuel sold at the airport was reduced from 20% to 4% to attract more airlines to the city. Overnight parking of aircraft at the airport was made free-of-charge to encourage airlines to schedule their aircraft to remain overnight, so that there may be more early-morning flights to the metro cities. The Airports Authority of India also constructed three more parking bays, thereby making it the first Tier-II airport in India to have eight aircraft parking bays. Two new aerobridges will be added to the terminal and the runway is to be extended as well.

Cargo terminal

A new cargo terminal was inaugurated in February 2017 by the then Jharkhand Chief Minister

Raghubar Das Raghubar Das (born 3 May 1955) is an Indian politician who served as the sixth Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He was sworn in as the 6th chief minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014. He belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and has twice served as ...

. The terminal can handle 50 MT of cargo everyday and is equipped with explosive trace detection equipment, cargo X-ray machines, hardware security machines, and CCTV cameras.

Airlines and destinations

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