BLR
Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru

Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (IATA: BLR, ICAO: VOBL) is a large airport in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It opened on 24 May 2008. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,000 m (13,123 ft). In 2024 it handled 41.9 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 2008–200824 MAY 2008
OpenedKempegowda International Airport Bengaluru opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap09R/27L092° / 272° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
09L/27R · LIT
LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2015–202419.0M
22.9M
25.0M
32.1M
32.4M
10.9M
16.3M
31.9M
37.5M
41.9M
15161718192021222324
Routes
27 destinations · 17 countriesCargo26
CJBCoimbatore International AirportIndia · Amazon Air252 km157 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · Quikjet Airlines, Amazon Air455 km283 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · Turkish Airlines710 km441 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation, Amazon Air834 km518 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,547 km961 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Quikjet Airlines, Amazon Air1,709 km1,062 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air2,349 km1,460 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · AeroLogic2,492 km1,548 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · FedEx Express2,694 km1,674 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Challenge Group, Emirates SkyCargo2,697 km1,676 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways2,724 km1,693 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · MASkargo2,884 km1,792 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,043 km1,891 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · Turkish Airlines3,260 km2,026 miCTUChengdu Shuangliu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines3,310 km2,057 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines3,497 km2,173 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · FedEx Express3,913 km2,431 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · UPS Airlines3,949 km2,454 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cathay Pacific3,955 km2,458 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines4,267 km2,651 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Challenge Group4,826 km2,999 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines5,658 km3,516 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · AeroLogic7,402 km4,599 miCGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · UPS Airlines, FedEx Express7,513 km4,668 miLGGLiège AirportBelgium · FedEx Express7,630 km4,741 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · FedEx Express7,825 km4,862 miMost destinationsFedEx Express 5Amazon Air 4Turkish Airlines 3Quikjet Airlines 2Blue Dart Aviation 2AeroLogic 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BLR. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kempegowda International Airport” (revision of 27 Sep 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 channelsATIS128.675
DELIVERY121.820
APP121.250
SMC121.650
TOWER124.350