KTM
Tribhuvan International Airport
Tribhuvan International Airport (IATA: KTM, ICAO: VNKT) is a large airport in Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal. It opened in 1955. It has one runway, 3,350 m (10,991 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. In 2019 it handled 7.3 million passengers.
Timeline
6 events · 1955–20151955
OpenedTribhuvan International Airport opens.
31 JUL 1992
DisasterThai Airways International Flight 311.113 killed
28 SEP 1992
DisasterPIA Flight 268.167 killed
25 SEP 2011
DisasterBuddha Air Flight 103.19 killed
28 SEP 2012
DisasterSita Air Flight 601.19 killed
03 MAR 2015
DisasterTurkish Airlines Flight 726.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap02/20022° / 202° · LIT
LENGTH3,350 m10,991 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2008–20192.9M
3.4M
4.0M
4.5M
4.5M
4.7M
5.0M
4.6M
5.3M
6.3M
7.2M
7.3M
080910111213141516171819
Routes
56 destinations · 18 countriesYear-round53
SIFSimara AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Buddha Air70 km43 miBHRBharatpur AirportNepal · Buddha Air92 km57 miPPLPhaplu AirportNepal · Summit Air, Nepal Airlines122 km76 miJKRJanakpur AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Buddha Air, Shree Airlines123 km76 miRUMRumjatar AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines125 km78 miLUATenzing-Hillary AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Sita Air, Summit Air135 km84 miPHHPokhara International AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Sita Air, Saurya Airlines +2143 km89 miKhanidanda AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines151 km94 miThamkharka AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines165 km103 miBHPBhojpur AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines178 km111 miTMITumling Tar AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Summit Air, Buddha Air186 km116 miRJBRajbiraj AirportNepal · Buddha Air, Shree Airlines190 km118 miBWAGautam Buddha International AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Saurya Airlines, Nepal Airlines +2193 km120 miBIRBiratnagar AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Saurya Airlines, Buddha Air +1232 km144 miTPJTaplejung AirportNepal · Sita Air, Summit Air, Nepal Airlines234 km145 miBDPBhadrapur AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Saurya Airlines, Buddha Air +1297 km185 miVNSLRukum Salle AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines304 km189 miDNPTulsipur AirportNepal · Nepal Airlines305 km190 miVNSLal Bahadur Shastri International AirportIndia · Buddha Air352 km219 miKEPNepalgunj AirportNepal · Yeti Airlines, Sita Air, Summit Air +3366 km227 miSKHSurkhet AirportNepal · Buddha Air378 km235 miPBHParo International AirportBhutan · Bhutan Airlines, Drukair402 km250 miDHIDhangarhi AirportNepal · Saurya Airlines, Buddha Air, Shree Airlines482 km300 miLXALhasa Gonggar International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines571 km355 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Buddha Air641 km398 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · Himalaya Airlines662 km411 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Bhutan Airlines, Nepal Airlines +2816 km507 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Nepal Airlines1,592 km989 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines1,773 km1,102 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · Air India Express, Nepal Airlines1,797 km1,117 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines, Air China1,876 km1,166 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines2,086 km1,296 miDMKDon Mueang International AirportThailand · Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air2,200 km1,367 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Thai Airways, Nepal Airlines2,230 km1,386 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · SriLankan Airlines2,353 km1,462 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir2,746 km1,706 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Nepal Airlines2,837 km1,763 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cathay Pacific, Nepal Airlines2,932 km1,822 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia2,974 km1,848 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Himalaya Airlines, Nepal Airlines2,990 km1,858 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia3,081 km1,914 miPKXBeijing Daxing International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines3,141 km1,952 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Himalaya Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Nepal Airlines +13,273 km2,034 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Himalaya Airlines, Qatar Airways, Nepal Airlines3,360 km2,088 miTAOQingdao Jiaodong International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines3,392 km2,108 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · Himalaya Airlines, Nepal Airlines3,511 km2,182 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines3,535 km2,197 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines3,538 km2,198 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Jazeera Airways, Himalaya Airlines, Kuwait Airways3,644 km2,264 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Himalaya Airlines, Nepal Airlines3,849 km2,392 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air3,966 km2,464 miNRTNarita International AirportJapan · Nepal Airlines5,214 km3,240 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines5,307 km3,298 miCharter3
RHPRamechhap AirportNepal · Sita Air77 km48 miPPLPhaplu AirportNepal · Sita Air122 km76 miBDPBhadrapur AirportNepal · Sita Air297 km185 miCargo5
CCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · SpiceJet641 km398 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines1,773 km1,102 miCTUChengdu Shuangliu International AirportChina · SF Airlines1,831 km1,138 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · SF Airlines1,876 km1,166 miNNGNanning Wuxu International AirportChina · Himalaya Airlines2,362 km1,468 miMost destinationsNepal Airlines 21Buddha Air 14Himalaya Airlines 14Yeti Airlines 9Shree Airlines 8Sita Air 7
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KTM. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Tribhuvan International Airport” (revision of 22 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
5 channelsAPPKATHMANDU APP120.600
ATISKATHMANDU ATIS127.000
GNDKATHMANDU GND121.900
RDOKATHMANDU RDO292.300
TWRKATHMANDU TWR118.100