Silchar Airport is among the busiest airport in the northern eastern states of North India. This airport was made in the British era. Now this is a civil enclave airport i.e. it is operated for the commercial as well as for the Defense related activities. In the year 2003, this airport started its commercial activities keeping an eye on the increasing needs of air transport in the nearby areas of the Silchar. Now it caters around 230000 passengers every year. In the year 2007, the airport was renovated and hence the bigger flights can be operated from here now. This airport has Night Landing facilities and Instrument landing facilities. The length of the runway of this airport is 2286 meters.
Code of the Airport: IXS
Facilities in Silchar Airport
- Food Courts: For beating the hunger of the passenger, various international and national food outlets are present inside and outside premises of the airport. Comfortable seats for resting are available at the airport.
- Parking Facilities: After the 2007 renovation, this airport got the ample amount of space for the parking.
- Baggage Facility: All modern facilities like automatic baggage handling system, X Ray Scanners are installed at this airport.
- Medical Facility: Emergency rooms for the medical condition are available at this airport.
- Shopping: There are various shops inside the airport that sells the good shopping products. There are several shops that are duty free.
Connectivity to the Silchar Airport
- By Bus: The Bus stands is located around 24 Km from the airport as the airport is itself this much far from the main city of the Silchar. Various Buses of the Assam State Transport Corporation ply towards the airport from various locations.
- Buy Train: Nearest Railway station is about 26 Km from the airport.
- By Cabs: There are several cabs facilities that are available till the airport. Various hotels also offer their pick and drop facilities.
Flight Operators
Air India, Air India Regional and Jet Airways are some of the flight operators that are carrying out the flight facilities towards these locations: Guwahati, Kolkata, Imphal and Jorhat.
Contact Details
Address Airport Controller
Airports Authority of India, Silchar Airport, Kumbhirgram, Silchar - 788109 (Assam)
Telephone 91-3841-282293
Fax 91-3841-282151(TELE FAX)
E-mail apcsilchar@aai.aero