Purnea Airport

25.7596°N 87.4100°E39 m / 129 ftSmall airport

Purnea Airport is a small airport in Bihar, India. It has one runway, 2,652 m (8,700 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Indian Air Force.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

09/27090° / 270° · LIT

LENGTH2,652 m8,700 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEConcrete

Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

CCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Star Air (India)361 km224 mi DELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,066 km662 mi HYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,327 km825 mi AMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Star Air (India)1,525 km948 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from VEPU. From the Wikipedia article “Purnia Airport” (revision of 30 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from VEPU

Passenger2

6EIndiGo3 —Star Air2

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway2,652 m8,700 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,982of 29,858 · =614 Asia · #81 IN Elevation39 m129 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,952of 43,403 · =2,187 Asia · =264 IN Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =185 Asia · =22 IN

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