MAA
Chennai International Airport
Chennai International Airport (IATA: MAA, ICAO: VOMM) is a large airport in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It opened in 1954. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,661 m (12,011 ft). It is operated by Airports Authority of India.
Timeline
1 event · 1954–19541954
OpenedChennai International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap07/25071° / 251° · LIT
LENGTH3,661 m12,011 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
12/30119° / 299° · LIT
LENGTH2,890 m9,482 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Routes
79 destinations · 19 countriesYear-round67
CDPKadapa AirportIndia · IndiGo227 km141 miSXVSalem AirportIndia · IndiGo265 km165 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express +1268 km167 miTRZTiruchirappalli International AirportIndia · IndiGo294 km183 miJAFJaffna International AirportSri Lanka · IndiGo356 km221 miMYQMysore AirportIndia · IndiGo391 km243 miVGAVijayawada International AirportIndia · IndiGo400 km249 miCJBCoimbatore International AirportIndia · IndiGo404 km251 miIXMMadurai AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express417 km259 miRJARajahmundry AirportIndia · IndiGo491 km305 miCCJCalicut International AirportIndia · IndiGo502 km312 miRQYRashtrakavi Kuvempu AirportIndia · SpiceJet502 km312 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Alliance Air, SpiceJet507 km315 miCNNKannur International AirportIndia · IndiGo516 km321 miCOKCochin International AirportIndia · IndiGo, SpiceJet518 km322 miTCRTuticorin AirportIndia · IndiGo529 km329 miIXEMangaluru International AirportIndia · IndiGo572 km355 miHBXHubballi AirportIndia · IndiGo608 km378 miTRVThiruvananthapuram International AirportIndia · IndiGo614 km382 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · IndiGo, FitsAir, SriLankan Airlines647 km402 miVTZAlluri Sitarama Raju International Airport (Vizag)India · IndiGo659 km409 miGOIGoa Dabolim International AirportIndia · IndiGo733 km455 miGOXManohar International AirportIndia · IndiGo, SpiceJet745 km463 miPNQPune International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, SpiceJet913 km567 miRPRSwami Vivekananda AirportIndia · IndiGo926 km575 miSAGShirdi International AirportIndia · IndiGo968 km601 miBBIBiju Patnaik International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,007 km626 miNMINavi Mumbai International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,010 km628 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India +11,033 km642 miIDRDevi Ahilya Bai Holkar International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,176 km731 miSTVSurat International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,199 km745 miIXRBirsa Munda AirportIndia · IndiGo1,270 km789 miBDQVadodara International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,273 km791 miIXZVeer Savarkar International Airport / INS UtkroshIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, Air India Express1,373 km853 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Akasa Air, SpiceJet1,375 km854 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express, SpiceJet1,386 km861 miRDPKazi Nazrul Islam AirportIndia · IndiGo1,398 km869 miVNSLal Bahadur Shastri International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,414 km879 miKNUKanpur AirportIndia · IndiGo1,492 km927 miPATJay Prakash Narayan AirportIndia · IndiGo, SpiceJet1,493 km928 miLKOChaudhary Charan Singh International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,533 km953 miJAIJaipur International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,604 km997 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · IndiGo, Biman Bangladesh Airlines1,617 km1,005 miIXAAgartala - Maharaja Bir Bikram AirportIndia · IndiGo1,681 km1,045 miIXBBagdogra AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express1,744 km1,084 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India1,760 km1,094 miHDOHindon Airport / Hindon Air Force StationIndia · IndiGo1,772 km1,101 miGAULokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Air India Express1,884 km1,171 miDEDDehradun Jolly Grant AirportIndia · IndiGo1,923 km1,195 miIXCShaheed Bhagat Singh International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,997 km1,241 miATQSri Guru Ram Das Ji International AirportIndia · IndiGo2,153 km1,338 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · IndiGo2,227 km1,384 miIXJJammu AirportIndia · IndiGo2,257 km1,402 miPENPenang International AirportMalaysia · IndiGo2,365 km1,470 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir, Oman Air2,589 km1,609 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · IndiGo, Malaysia Airlines2,629 km1,634 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · IndiGo, Scoot, Air India Express2,925 km1,818 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · IndiGo, Emirates2,932 km1,822 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · IndiGo, Akasa Air2,966 km1,843 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · IndiGo, Qatar Airways3,286 km2,042 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Cathay Pacific3,713 km2,307 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · IndiGo, Kuwait Airways3,777 km2,347 miBWNBrunei International AirportBrunei · Royal Brunei Airlines3,916 km2,433 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines4,533 km2,817 miRUNRoland Garros AirportRéunion · IndiGo4,631 km2,878 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa7,595 km4,719 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways8,235 km5,117 miCargo28
BLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · Blue Dart Aviation268 km167 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation507 km315 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · Turkish Airlines647 km402 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,033 km642 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,375 km854 miCCUNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,386 km861 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,760 km1,094 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · K-Mile Air2,227 km1,384 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · Oman Air2,589 km1,609 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · MASkargo2,629 km1,634 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · YTO Cargo Airlines2,740 km1,703 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Singapore Airlines2,922 km1,816 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines2,925 km1,818 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates SkyCargo2,937 km1,825 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways2,966 km1,843 miNNGNanning Wuxu International AirportChina · YTO Cargo Airlines3,145 km1,954 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines, SF Airlines3,149 km1,957 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,286 km2,042 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · YTO Cargo Airlines3,675 km2,284 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · SF Airlines3,709 km2,305 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Hong Kong Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Lufthansa Cargo +13,713 km2,307 miEHUEzhou Huahu International AirportChina · SF Airlines4,062 km2,524 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · Air Central4,148 km2,577 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines4,533 km2,817 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · Etihad Airways4,704 km2,923 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines5,870 km3,647 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa Cargo7,595 km4,719 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · Singapore Airlines7,879 km4,896 miStraight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MAA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Chennai International Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Airlines
34 airlines · destinations from MAAPassenger19
6EIndiGo61IXAir India Express8QPAkasa Air5ETEthiopian Airlines29IAlliance Air1BGBiman Bangladesh Airlines1BABritish Airways1CXCathay Pacific1EKEmirates18DFitsAir1KUKuwait Airways1LHLufthansa1MHMalaysia Airlines1WYOman Air1QRQatar Airways1BIRoyal Brunei Airlines1OVSalamAir1TZScoot1ULSriLankan Airlines1Former hub of Jet Airways and Paramount Airways.
Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from MAA. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,075 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
6 channelsACCCHENNAI CNTR118.900
APPAPP127.900
ATISATIS127.450
GCASCHENNAI RADARS125.700
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR118.100