# Sonari Airport (IXW / VEJS)

**Sonari Airport** (IATA: IXW, ICAO: VEJS) is a medium airport in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. It opened in 1940. It has one runway, 1,222 m (4,010 ft) long, asphalt.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/vejs

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: IXW / VEJS
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
- Opened: 1940 (Wikipedia)
- Elevation: 145 m / 475 ft
- Coordinates: 22.8137, 86.1690
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 1,222 m / 4,010 ft
- Time zone: UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonari_Airport (12 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7560814
- Weather station: VEJS · WMO 42798
- Ident: VEJS

## Timeline

- 1940: Sonari Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08/26 | 1,222 m / 4,010 ft | 31 m / 100 ft | Asphalt | 081° / 261° |  |

## Routes

2 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [CCU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vecc.md) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport · India · 234 km / 145 mi · IndiaOne Air
- [BBI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vebs.md) Biju Patnaik International Airport · India · 287 km / 178 mi · IndiaOne Air

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from IXW, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- [IndiaOne Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/indiaone-air) · 2

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 1,222 m / 4,010 ft | =9,498 of 29,858 | =1,541 in Asia | =195 in IN |
| Elevation | 145 m / 475 ft | =27,582 of 43,403 | =1,517 in Asia | #187 in IN |
| Age | Opened 1940 | =1,114 of 15,079 | =111 in Asia | =12 in IN |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =185 in Asia | =22 in IN |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TWR | TWR | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

- [IXR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/verc.md) Birsa Munda Airport · 103 km / 64 mi
- [DBD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vedb.md) Dhanbad Airport · 116 km / 72 mi
- [RDP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/vedg.md) Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport · 142 km / 88 mi
- [VEPH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/veph.md) Panagarh Air Force Station · 148 km / 92 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Sonari Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonari_Airport&oldid=1365353872), revision of 21 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/vejs/data