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The airport has two passenger terminals that handle both domestic and international operations, and two runways, the second of which was commissioned on 6 December 2019. [13] [14] The second terminal was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 11 November 2022. [15] [16] There is also a cargo village with three cargo terminals.
Sl. no. Location : ICAO : IATA : Airport name International airports: 1: Bangalore: VOBL: BLR: Kempegowda International Airport: 2: Mangalore: VOML: IXE: Mangaluru ...
[4] [3] In 2018, Bangalore was reported to have the second highest number of two-wheelers in the country. [5] Bangalore's car density (number of cars for every kilometre of road), however, was found to be 149 – much lower than other major Indian cities. [6] App based rental motorcycles, bicycles and cars are also available for commuting.
During the 1990s, Bangalore's rising global stature and bustling economy led passenger numbers at the HAL airport to rise at a quick rate. While 1,000 travellers were passing through the terminal daily in 1991, more than six times that number were doing so by 1997. [9]
Karnataka governor T. N. Chaturvedi inaugurated the airport in November 2006, [7] and Air Deccan launched flights to Bangalore and Goa the following month. [8] As part of the Indian government's UDAN scheme, TruJet began service to Hyderabad in September 2017. [9] In October 2022, Alliance Air started flying to Hyderabad and Bangalore. [10]
India's busiest airports is the list of top fifty busiest commercially operational airports in the country.The tables below contain the busiest airports ranked by the following parameters as per the data published by Airports Authority of India.
In November 2013, Zoom, Uber, and the Ashoka Foundation launched a month-long campaign in Bangalore called RideSmartBLR to encourage car-rental and discourage drunk driving for its health, economical and environmental benefits. [33] Zoom was a member of Microsoft's Accelerator Plus program in Bangalore in Spring 2014. [34]
Mangalore Airport was the first airport in Karnataka to have two runways [21] and the first to have a runway made of concrete. [22] The second runway (06/24), 2,450 m (8,038 ft) long, was opened on 10 May 2006. A Jet Airways flight from Bangalore with 95 passengers on board was the first to land on this runway. [23]