HRI

Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport

ICAO VCRI6.2839°N 81.1242°E48 m / 157 ftMedium airport
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Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (IATA: HRI, ICAO: VCRI) is a medium airport in Mattala, Southern Province, Sri Lanka. It has one runway, 3,500 m (11,483 ft) long, asphalt. In 2019 it handled 2 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23 · LIT
LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2019
20K
2K
1419

Routes

12 destinations · 5 countries

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from HRI. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

5 airlines · destinations from HRI
Passenger5
ZFAzur Airseasonal charter · 8B2Belaviaseasonal charter · 1FBBulgaria Airseasonal charter · 1C6Centrum Airseasonal · 1DVSCAT Airlinesseasonal charter · 1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from HRI. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,225of 3,974 · #879 Asia · #2 LKLongest runway3,500 m11,483 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=488of 29,858 · =149 Asia · #1 LKElevation48 m157 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,091of 43,403 · =2,087 Asia · #6 LKRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =185 Asia · =1 LK
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
Tower119.850
Ground121.700