Shah Amanat International Airport

ICAO VGEG22.2496°N 91.8133°E4 m / 12 ftLarge airport

Shah Amanat International Airport (IATA: CGP, ICAO: VGEG) is a large airport in Chattogram (Chittagong), Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. It opened in 1941. It has one runway, 2,940 m (9,646 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh. In 2018 it handled 1.7 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1941–1941

1941

OpenedShah Amanat International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

05/23048° / 228° · LIT

LENGTH2,940 m9,646 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2007–2018

348K

746K

559K

690K

861K

922K

929K

1.1M

1.2M

1.4M

1.7M

070809101112131415161718

Routes

5 destinations · 3 countries

Year-round3

DACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · NovoAir229 km142 mi SHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia3,698 km2,298 mi AUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia3,791 km2,356 mi

Cargo4

CXBCox's Bazar AirportBangladesh · Bismillah Airlines, SkyAir89 km55 mi DACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · Bismillah Airlines, SkyAir229 km142 mi HANNoi Bai International AirportVietnam · Etihad Airways1,449 km900 mi AUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways3,791 km2,356 mi

Most destinationsAir Arabia 2Bismillah Airlines 2SkyAir 2Etihad Airways 2NovoAir 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CGP. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Shah Amanat International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers1.7M (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#629of 3,974 · #187 Asia · #2 BD Longest runway2,940 m9,646 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,479of 29,823 · #426 Asia · #2 BD Elevation4 m12 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,167of 43,341 · =3,064 Asia · =15 BD AgeOpened 19412026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,548of 15,079 · =123 Asia · #1 BD Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =1 BD

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

3 channels

ATISATIS127.600

GNDCHITTAGONG GND121.800

TWRCHITTAGONG TWR118.700