MLE
Velana International Airport
Velana International Airport (IATA: MLE, ICAO: VRMM) is a large airport in Malé, Malé (capital city), Maldives. It opened on 12 Apr 1966. It has one runway, 3,400 m (11,155 ft) long, asphalt.
Timeline
1 event · 1966–196612 APR 1966
OpenedVelana International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap18/36179° / 359° · LIT
LENGTH3,400 m11,155 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Routes
62 destinations · 26 countriesYear-round49
VAMVilla International Airport MaamigiliMaldives · FlyMe111 km69 miDRVDharavandhoo AirportMaldives · Maldivian, Manta Air116 km72 miLMVMadivaru AirportMaldives · Maldivian142 km88 miMUMMuli AirportMaldives · Maldivian143 km89 miIFUIfuru AirportMaldives · Maldivian178 km111 miNMFMaafaru International AirportMaldives · Maldivian181 km112 miDDDDhaalu Atoll AirportMaldives · Manta Air184 km114 miFNDFunadhoo AirportMaldives · Maldivian221 km137 miTMFThimarafushi AirportMaldives · Maldivian224 km139 miKDOKadhdhoo AirportMaldives · Maldivian259 km161 miHDKKulhudhuffushi AirportMaldives · Maldivian276 km171 miHAQHanimaadhoo International AirportMaldives · Maldivian287 km178 miHRFHoarafushi AirportMaldives · Maldivian317 km197 miGKKKooddoo AirportMaldives · Maldivian385 km239 miKDMKaadedhdhoo AirportMaldives · Maldivian416 km258 miRULMaavaarulaa AirportMaldives · Maldivian429 km267 miGANGan International AirportMaldives · Maldivian545 km339 miTRVThiruvananthapuram International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Maldivian607 km377 miCOKCochin International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Maldivian734 km456 miCMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · flydubai, Chongqing Airlines, FitsAir +2778 km483 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · IndiGo1,101 km684 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,658 km1,030 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo2,735 km1,699 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · US-Bangla Airlines2,837 km1,763 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways3,025 km1,880 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · BeOnd3,026 km1,880 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia3,037 km1,887 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates3,040 km1,889 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Batik Air Malaysia3,132 km1,946 miDMKDon Mueang International AirportThailand · Thai AirAsia3,160 km1,964 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,312 km2,058 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines3,398 km2,111 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air3,458 km2,149 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas, Saudia3,681 km2,287 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines3,908 km2,428 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Centrum Air4,143 km2,574 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Saudia4,184 km2,600 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines4,353 km2,705 miRSIRed Sea International AirportSaudi Arabia · BeOnd4,556 km2,831 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Azerbaijan Airlines4,669 km2,901 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Greater Bay Airlines4,789 km2,976 miOVBNovosibirsk Tolmachevo AirportRussia · S7 Airlines5,711 km3,549 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines5,861 km3,642 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines6,065 km3,769 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · BeOnd7,604 km4,725 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · BeOnd7,735 km4,806 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · BeOnd, Edelweiss Air7,804 km4,849 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Discover Airlines7,885 km4,900 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways8,539 km5,306 miSeasonal12
CMBBandaranaike International Colombo AirportSri Lanka · French Bee778 km483 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo1,545 km960 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Maldivian3,166 km1,967 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Air Astana4,368 km2,714 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Hong Kong Airlines4,789 km2,976 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · Maldivian4,790 km2,976 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · Maldivian4,949 km3,075 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · ITA Airways, Neos7,344 km4,563 miVRNVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo AirportItaly · Neos7,566 km4,701 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France8,276 km5,142 miORYParis-Orly AirportFrance · French Bee8,284 km5,147 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Virgin Atlantic8,539 km5,306 miMost destinationsMaldivian 21IndiGo 6BeOnd 5Neos 4Manta Air 2flydubai 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MLE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Velana International Airport” (revision of 26 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
3 channelsAPPAPP119.700
GNDGND121.600
TWRTWR118.100