- Bhopal Airport
Infobox Airport
name = Bhopal Airport
nativename = Raja Bhoj Airport
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nativename-r =
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IATA = BHO
ICAO = VABP
type = Public
owner =
operator =Airports Authority of India
owner-oper =
city-served =Bhopal
location =
elevation-f = 1,719
elevation-m =524
coordinates = coord|23|17|15|N|077|20|15|E|type:airport
website =
metric-elev =
metric-rwy =
r1-number = 06/24
r1-length-f = 3,420
r1-length-m = 1.042
r1-surface = Bituminoustar /Asphalt
r2-number = 12/30
r2-length-f = 6,700
r2-length-m = 2,042
r2-surface = Asphalt
footnotes =Bhopal Airport Airport codes|BHO|VABP is a public domestic
airport servingBhopal in the state ofMadhya Pradesh ,India . The name of the airport is Raja Bhoj Airport. It is located convert|15|km|mi|abbr=onin Bairagarh also called Sant Hirdaram Nagar, in the north-west of Bhopal city center on National Highway 12 from Bhopal toJaipur .Future Plans
Bhopal Airport will become an international airport by 2010. Flights will be operated to
Middle East . It would be third international airport in central India after Nagpur and Indore.Runway is being increased in two processes. In the first the runway would be increased to convert|9000|ft|abbr=on and in the second process it would be increased to convert|11500|ft|abbr=on.
A new terminal is also planned and in the future, flights would extend to South Asian Countries.
Airlines and Destinations
Domestic
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Kingfisher Red (Delhi, Jabalpur, Gwalior)
*Air India (Delhi, Mumbai, Indore)
*Alliance Air (Delhi, Mumbai)
*Jet Airways (Delhi, Mumbai, Indore, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Raipur, Ahmedabad)International
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Air India (Sharjah, Dubai)External links
* [http://aai.aero/allAirports/bhopal_generalinfo.jsp Bhopal Airport] (VABP
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