AviatDataLokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport GAU / VEGT
Guwahati, Assam · India · Guwahati International Airport Limited (GIAL) — a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (Adani Group), operating under a 50-year O&M concession from the Airports Authority of India (AAI); concession agreement signed 19 January 2021, effective from 8 October 2021
7.0Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · bonded
ICAO / IATAVEGT / GAU
OperatorGuwahati International Airport Limited (GIAL) — a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Airport Holdings Ltd (Adani Group), operating under a 50-year O&M concession from the Airports Authority of India (AAI); concession agreement signed 19 January 2021, effective from 8 October 2021
Coordinates26.1050°N, 91.5856°E
Elevation163 ft · 50 m
Time zoneIST (UTC+5:30, no DST)
Passengers / yr7,010,000 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
BondedYes
AIP referenceVEGT — India AIP (AAI eAIP, AD 2.1 VEGT, aim-india.aai.aero)
Operating hoursH24 for ATS, customs, immigration, MET and fuelling (customs/immigration H24 but on a limited basis tied to scheduled international flight timings). The aerodrome operator's own administrative hours are Mon-Fri 0400-1300 UTC (0930-1830 IST) and Sat 0400-0800 UTC (0930-1330 IST), closed Sunday, per AAI eAIP AD 2.1 VEGT.
TerminalsTwo terminals: Terminal 1 (opened 1958, ~28,685 sqm, roughly 6M pax/yr design capacity, 4 aerobridges) still handles IndiGo's domestic flights, while the new Terminal 2 ("Bamboo Orchids", ~140,000 sqm, 13.1M pax/yr capacity, 10 aerobridges, ~INR 4,000 crore build cost, designed by Nuru Karim) was inaugurated by PM Modi on 20 December 2025 and began phased commercial operations from 22 February 2026 — Akasa Air first, then SpiceJet and Alliance Air (1 March 2026), then Air India and Air India Express (16 March 2026). Both terminals were operating in parallel as of the latest data, with T2 progressively absorbing traffic. International cargo/customs handling includes bonded storage and cold-chain facilities (port code INGAU4).
Runways (1)
- 02/20 · 3,105 m / 10,187 ft · 45 m wide · Asphalt · ILS ILS CAT I on RWY 02 only; RWY 20 has no ILS
Northeast India's principal air gateway and the region's main hub, India's 10th-busiest airport with a record 7.01 million passengers in CY2025 (+7.67% YoY); IndiGo and Alliance Air anchor the domestic network alongside Air India, Air India Express, Akasa Air and SpiceJet. Internationally, Drukair operates Paro-Guwahati-Bangkok and a third-weekly Paro-Guwahati-Singapore service, while Air India Express launched new weekly Guwahati-Dubai and Guwahati-Abu Dhabi flights on 4 August 2026 — together giving the airport scheduled links to four countries (Bhutan, Thailand, Singapore, UAE). Thai AirAsia's earlier direct Guwahati-Bangkok flight has been suspended (cited fuel costs) and is not currently operating. Single runway 02/20 carries CAT I ILS on RWY 02 only. The new 13.1M-capacity Terminal 2 ("Bamboo Orchids") opened commercially in February-March 2026 and is taking over from the 1958-era Terminal 1 as airlines migrate through 2026, roughly tripling the airport's throughput capacity ahead of continued Northeast India traffic growth.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available
IndoThai Airport Management Services Pvt Ltd
Confirmed ground handling provider at Guwahati (GAU) by a direct AERA ad-hoc tariff order — "AERA/20010/MYTP/IndoThai/GH/Guwahati/CP-III/2021-26", titled "Determination of ad hoc Tariff for Ground Handling Services to be provided by M/s Indo Thai Airport Management Services Pvt. Ltd., at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati" — plus a separate GAU ground-service-equipment-charge (GSEC) tariff card for IndoThai on the airport's own site and the company's own dedicated Guwahati airport page; no specific AAI/BCAS licence number located.
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Aircraft fuel
Available · 2 providers
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IndianOil Aviation Service)
Documented Jet A-1/ATF supplier at LGBI Airport, with an IOCL aviation fuel station mapped in the airport's own Borjhar/Azara locality. Since GIAL commissioned an "Open Access Fuel Farm" in May 2025 (built by consolidating the assets of the oil marketing companies already operating on-field), fuelling now runs through this shared common-carrier system rather than IOCL-only tanks, with a hydrant refuelling system slated roughly 24 months after commissioning; fuelling is presently tanker-based (non-hydrant). IOCL is absent from IndianOil Skytanking's (IOSL) own into-plane location list for GAU, consistent with a direct-IOCL rather than IOSL model. Sourcing from IOCL's nearby Guwahati (Noonmati) refinery is plausible given proximity but not independently confirmed station-by-station. · 24/7
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Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL Aviation)
Press coverage of GIAL's May 2025 "Open Access Fuel Farm" (Sentinel Assam, Morung Express, Tripura Times) confirms the facility was built by consolidating assets from "various oil marketing companies" operating at LGBI Airport, and the open-access model is explicitly designed to give a level playing field to multiple OMCs — consistent with BPCL being a co-supplier — but no source found names BPCL specifically at GAU, so this remains unconfirmed rather than corroborated.
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De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Not listed
Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Not listed
Cargo handling
Available · 3 providers
Guwahati International Airport Ltd (GIAL, Adani Airport Holdings)
Self-operates the Domestic Air Cargo Terminal at LGBI Airport around the clock (admin department 09:30-18:30 hrs), confirmed on the airport's own current cargo page (lgbia-guwahati.adaniairports.com/en/business/cargo), which explicitly states GAU cargo handling is split between international (AAICLAS) and domestic (GIAL) operations; runs the GALAXY cloud cargo-handling system (Kale Logistics Solutions) for documentation, tracking and import/export/domestic processing. Cold-storage, X-ray and barcoding features sometimes attributed to this terminal actually sit under a separate "Upcoming Infrastructure Projects" item on the same page (matching AIDC's planned Air Cargo Complex), not GIAL's existing domestic terminal, so hazmat handling is not independently confirmed for GIAL. Note: the previously listed contact ••• could not be verified on the airport's official Contact Us page (which instead lists ••• and •••) or anywhere else, so it has been removed. · 24/7 (cargo terminal); 09:30-18:30 (admin)
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AAI Cargo Logistics & Allied Services Company Ltd (AAICLAS)
Operates the international side of the cargo terminal at LGBI Airport; corroborated both by AAICLAS's own equipment-maintenance contract documentation, which names the "AAICLAS Cargo Terminal, LGBI Airport, Guwahati", and, as of Aug 2026, by the airport operator's own official cargo page, which states current GAU cargo handling is split between international (AAICLAS) and domestic (GIAL) operations.
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Assam Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (AIDC)
Assam state-government undertaking that has been allotted 4,050 sq m of land at LGBI Airport (project cost approx. Rs. 1,984.32 lakhs) for an Air Cargo Complex / Centre for Perishable Cargo covering receiving, weighment, bar-coding, phytosanitary inspection, cold storage and customs clearance ahead of loading, per AIDC's own project listing (last reviewed 5 Aug 2026). However the airport operator's own current cargo page catalogues a matching-scope facility under "Upcoming Infrastructure Projects" rather than among LGBIA's active facilities, so the complex appears land-allotted/in development rather than confirmed live and receiving cargo today; downgraded from "available" to "unconfirmed" pending evidence of go-live.
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Aviation security
Available
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
Provides aviation security screening, terminal access control and passenger/baggage security at LGBI Airport; confirmed by The Hindu (Jul 1, 2026), which reports CISF personnel detaining two individuals "from the new terminal of Guwahati's Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi" airport, consistent with CISF's standard statutory cover of AAI-category sensitive/international airports under BCAS regulation. · 24/7
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Passenger & crew transport
Not listed
Flight support
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Hotel & travel
Unconfirmed · 2 providers
Vivanta Guwahati (IHCL/Taj)
Genuine IHCL/Taj-brand 5-star hotel (phone number confirmed against the hotel's own listing) roughly 30 km / about an hour from LGBI Airport, recommended as a crew-layover hotel by more than one independent flight-support/ops directory; no publicly documented airline crew-accommodation contract found, so the crew-specific arrangement remains unconfirmed.
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Radisson Blu Guwahati
Genuine Radisson-brand hotel on NH-37 (phone number confirmed against the hotel's own listing) with the hotel's own site citing easy access to LGBI Airport (roughly 30-40 minutes), recommended as a crew-layover hotel by more than one independent flight-support/ops directory; no publicly documented airline crew-accommodation contract found, so the crew-specific arrangement remains unconfirmed.
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