About Tirupati Airport

Tirupati Airport, (IATA: TIR, ICAO: VOTP) also known as Renigunta Airport, is located at Renigunta in Chittoor district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The airport is 14 km from Tirupati city.

The airport are relatively small with maximum capacity of 125 persons and only with 2 entry gates serving domestic flights. Upgradation of the Tirupati domestic airport into an international airport is unlikely in the immediate future.

Tirupati Airport now have the capacity to handle 500 domestic and 200 international flights during peak hours after the expansion and upgradation of the airport initiated on September 2010. All this remains on paper as the airport works have not moved an inch. The works were entrusted to a contractor, who came up with the lowest bid, and after some initial momentum, everything came to an abrupt end. Reasons given by contractor is the soil was not viable for airport works.

After long delay and finally, the new Integrated Terminal Building was inaugurated on 22 October 2015 by Prime Minister on India, Narendra Modi, the new terminal popularly known as ‘Garuda Terminal’, at the Tirupati Airport.

Currently there are 5 airlines operate in Tirupati Airport which is Air Costa, Air India, Air India Regional, SpiceJet and TruJet.

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