Kadapa Airport is a regional airport serving

Kadapa Kadapa (colonial spelled Cuddapah) is a city in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located in the Rayalaseema region, and is the district headquarters of YSR Kadapa district. As of the 2022 Census of India, the city had a popul ...

(formerly Cuddapah) in

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, India. It is located from the city, and is spread over of land and has been upgraded at a cost of Rs. 42 crore. The upgraded airport was inaugurated on 7 June 2015 by the then Minister of Civil Aviation, Ashok Gajapathi Raju. The terminal building has a capacity to handle 100 peak hour passengers at a time and the apron can accommodate two

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aircraft.

History

left, Kadapa Airport terminal The airport was constructed in 1953, and initially had a runway. In the 1980s,

Vayudoot Vayudoot ( hi, वायुदूत, Vāyudūt, messenger who rides on the wind) was a regional airline in India established on 20 January 1981 as a joint-venture between the two state-owned carriers, Indian Airlines and Air India. The airli ...

operated services to Kadapa from

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern Indi ...

. The State Government and the

Airports Authority of India The Airports Authority of India, or AAI, is a public sector enterprise under the ownership of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. It is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining, and managing civil aviation infrastruct ...

(AAI) entered into a memorandum of understanding in March 2007 for developing the existing airports at Kadapa and Warangal to handle

ATR-42 The ATR 42 is a regional airliner produced by Franco-Italian manufacturer ATR, with final assembly in Toulouse, France. On 4 November 1981, the aircraft was launched with ATR, as a joint venture between French Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and ...

and

type of aircraft. In 2009, a new runway was completed under the Build, Operate and Transfer basis at a cost of Rs. 21 crore. In addition, an compound wall was constructed with an outlay of Rs. 24 crore. In the second phase, an air traffic control building, passenger terminal, parking bays and internal roads were built at a cost of Rs. 13 crore. Other facilities were developed at an estimated cost of Rs 8 crore. Scheduled commercial flights to the airport resumed on 7 June 2015 when Air Pegasus launched thrice weekly

ATR 72 The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (french: Avions de transport régional or it, Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed ...

service to Bangalore. However, flights were soon cancelled due to poor passenger loads. In April 2016,

TruJet TruJet was an Indian regional airline based at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. The airline commenced operations in July 2015 and ceased all operations in February 2022. History Turbo Megha Airways Private Limited was incorpo ...

introduced flights to Hyderabad, which were cancelled after a few months. Kadapa Airport was one of the 70 airports selected under

UDAN ''Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik'' ( Hindi for "Let the common citizens of the country fly"), known by its acronym ''UDAN'' ( Hindi for "flight") is a regional airport development program of the Government of India and part of the Regional Connect ...

(Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) to increase regional air connectivity. In March 2017, Trujet introduced daily flights to Hyderabad in September 2017, to Mysore via Chennai in November 2017, and to Vijayawada in March 2018.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

Cuddapah Airport at the Airports Authority of India
Airports in Andhra Pradesh Kadapa Buildings and structures in Kadapa district Transport in Kadapa district 1953 establishments in India Airports established in 1953 {{Kadapa-geo-stub