AviatDataPune Airport PNQ / VAPO
Pune, Maharashtra · India · Airports Authority of India (AAI) — wholly owned by the Government of India; civil enclave on the western side of Lohegaon Air Force Station, with the runway, taxiways and ATC owned and operated by the Indian Air Force and only the terminal/civil-enclave facilities run by AAI
10.5Mpax · 2025
H24International · customs & immigrationJet A-1 · Avgas 100LL
ICAO / IATAVAPO / PNQ
OperatorAirports Authority of India (AAI) — wholly owned by the Government of India; civil enclave on the western side of Lohegaon Air Force Station, with the runway, taxiways and ATC owned and operated by the Indian Air Force and only the terminal/civil-enclave facilities run by AAI
Coordinates18.5822°N, 73.9197°E
Elevation1,942 ft · 592 m
Time zoneIST (UTC+5:30, no DST)
Passengers / yr10,457,694 (2025)
CustomsYes
Border controlYes
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1 · Avgas 100LL
Bonded—
AIP referenceVAPO — AIP India (AAI eAIP, AD 2 VAPO)
Operating hoursH24 for ATS, customs and immigration per AIP India, but Pune is a civil enclave sharing its single runway and ATC with the Indian Air Force at Lohegaon Air Force Station, so civil movements are limited to allotted slots and can be suspended during IAF operational or maintenance windows — e.g. a major runway recarpeting shut the airport entirely for about 15 days from 15 Oct 2021 and then capped civil operations to roughly 12 hours/day (no night flights) through 1 Dec 2021. AAI civil-enclave administrative office Mon-Fri approx. 0930-1800 IST, closed Sat/Sun/holidays. PPR is typically required for non-scheduled and general-aviation flights at joint-use IAF stations, though a PNQ-specific current primary source for this could not be confirmed.
TerminalsTwo terminals used during a phased 2024-25 transition: the original terminal (floor-area and design-capacity figures for it are inconsistently reported across sources — as low as ~6,500 sqm per Wikipedia, as high as ~22,000 sqm in other material — and could not be reconciled to one reliable figure) and a new integrated terminal (~52,000 sqm; 34 check-in counters and 25 self-check-in kiosks are consistently reported; aerobridge count is reported as 5 in Wikipedia's infobox but as 10 in 2024 press coverage, with a Sept 2024 report noting all aerobridges were then operational — the higher figure of 10 appears to be the completed count; operational capacity is usually cited around 9-9.6M pax/year for the building that opened, versus an earlier 2021 press figure of up to 19M pax/year that reads as a longer-term/later-phase target rather than the delivered structure; interior/facade motifs draw on Maharashtrian heritage, commonly described as inspired by Shaniwar Wada). PM Modi inaugurated the new terminal 10 Mar 2024; it opened operationally 14 Jul 2024; international flights moved there 24 Dec 2024; ALL flight operations only completed the move from the old terminal on 5 Mar 2025 (not 'mid-2024' as in the earlier draft). A combined design-capacity figure (the draft's ~16M) could not be independently confirmed against a primary AAI source and should be treated as provisional.
Runways (1)
- 10/28 · 2,540 m / 8,333 ft · 46 m wide · Asphalt · ILS No ILS confirmed on either end — both RWY 28 and RWY 10 fly non-precision approaches only, guided by DVOR/DME (PPN 114.600 MHz) and NDB. Wikipedia and SkyVector both state an ILS has only been 'proposed' for Pune; the earlier draft's specific ILS CAT II claim with LOC/GP frequencies and the 'IPUN' identifier could not be corroborated by any source checked and has been removed as unverified.
A civil enclave sharing its single runway and ATC with the Indian Air Force at Lohegaon Air Force Station, which caps civil movement slots; IndiGo reportedly has the largest presence at the airport, alongside Air India, Akasa Air, SpiceJet and Alliance Air (carrier line-up plausible but not independently re-verified against a primary source). Recorded 10,457,694 passengers in FY2024-25, up 10.66% y/y (corrected from the draft's 9.8% — Times of India reported 'Pune airport records 1.05 crore passenger movements in 2024-25, 10.66% rise over 2023-24'), the ninth-busiest airport in India by traffic. Topped the ACI-ASQ passenger-satisfaction survey among 16 Indian airports for Q3 and Q4 2025 (score 4.96/5, in the volume band reporting labelled 'Category 2' — broadly consistent with, though not verbatim confirming, the draft's '5-15M pax' framing). Note: a state-government-approved proposal to rename the airport 'Jagadguru Sant Tukaram Maharaj Airport' exists per Wikipedia but has not been reflected in ICAO/AIP naming in the sources checked, so the operational name is left unchanged.
Services
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On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
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Ground handling
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AI Airport Services Limited (AIASL)
Formerly Air India Air Transport Services Ltd; AIASL's own published 'Network' page lists "Pune (Int)" under its Western Region international stations (alongside Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Goa Int, Mumbai, Rajkot), providing unified Ramp, Passenger and Baggage handling for Air India, Air India Express and contracted customer airlines at PNQ; AIASL's own homepage displays an "IATA Ground Handling Partner" badge.
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Aircraft fuel
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IndianOil Skytanking Pvt. Ltd. (IOSL)
IOSL, the joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL, the fuel supplier) and Skytanking, operates the Aviation Fuel Station at Pune Airport (PNQ), C/o Indian Oil Corporation, inside Lohegaon Airport, Maharashtra, per IOSL's own pan-India locations page, which names the Pune Location Incharge as Mr. Ambarish Sinnarkar; into-plane Jet A-1 fuelling agent for PNQ.
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De-icing
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Part-145 line maintenance
Unconfirmed
AI Engineering Services Limited (AIESL)
AIESL, Air India's engineering/MRO arm, states it provides Strategic Line Maintenance plus Transit/Daily/Weekly checks "at all major airports in India" and "major network stations"; Air India Express confirms Pune among its scheduled destinations, but AIESL's own "Our Presence" page names only its FAA/EASA-approved base-maintenance stations (Nagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai) and does not name Pune specifically, so a dedicated PNQ line-maintenance presence is plausible but not independently confirmed.
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Part-145 base maintenance
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Component shops & overhaul
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Flight catering
Available
Casino Air Caterers & Flight Services (CAFS)
Independent Indian airline caterer; its own site lists a dedicated Pune branch at 2, Sakore Nagar, Viman Nagar, Pune -- 411014 (adjacent to PNQ) among its flight-kitchen locations under Travel Catering, using the company's shared contact numbers rather than a Pune-specific line; a 24-hour operating claim for the Pune branch is repeated in local business directories but is not stated on CAFS's own site. · 24 hours
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Aircraft cleaning
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AI Airport Services Limited (AIASL)
Cabin Cleaning is explicitly listed as part of AIASL's core unified ground-handling service line ("Ramp, Passenger, Baggage, Cargo Handling and Cabin Cleaning") at its listed stations including Pune (Int), per aiasl.in; unconfirmed whether a separate specialist cleaning subcontractor is used airside.
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Ground support equipment
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Cargo handling
Available · 2 providers
AI Airport Services Limited (AIASL)
AIASL's own service description covers unified Ground Handling services -- "Ramp, Passenger, Baggage, Cargo Handling and Cabin Cleaning" -- at its network stations, which per its Network page includes Pune (Int); ramp-side Cargo Handling only, terminal/warehouse cargo operations are handled separately by AAICLAS.
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AAI Cargo Logistics and Allied Services Company Ltd (AAICLAS)
100% subsidiary of the Airports Authority of India and the default cargo-terminal operator at most AAI-run airports; a walk-in-interview / recruitment log reportedly shows repeated staffing rounds for a "Pune" (and "Pune RA") station spanning 2023-2026, suggesting an AAICLAS cargo operation at PNQ, but AAICLAS's own site could not be independently reached to confirm during, and Pune Airport's own Wikipedia entry describes its international cargo terminal as a newly proposed 600 sq.m facility rather than an established one -- so an existing AAICLAS presence handling domestic cargo is plausible but not independently confirmed.
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Aviation security
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AAI Cargo Logistics and Allied Services Company Ltd (AAICLAS)
AAICLAS operates as a BCAS-regulated agent and runs its own AVSEC-trained screener workforce at its cargo stations elsewhere in India; a walk-in-interview notice reportedly numbered "AI/PUNE AIRPORT/2023/01" for Certified Security Screeners is cited as evidence of a Pune-based screening operation, but the source itself only speculates this "most likely" covers cargo screening at an AAICLAS terminal, and this could not be independently verified -- treat as unconfirmed pending a primary-source check of AAICLAS's own site.
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Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
CISF is India's designated aviation-security force at AAI-operated commercial airports; per Pune Airport's own Wikipedia entry, CISF personnel provide passenger, baggage and airport perimeter/terminal security screening and guarding at PNQ (a 2024 CISF staffing shortfall was reported to have delayed the new terminal's opening).
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Passenger & crew transport
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Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML)
PMPML, Pune's city transit corporation, operates dedicated feeder bus services connecting PNQ's terminal to Ramwadi Metro station plus a separate city airport shuttle, per Pune Airport's own Wikipedia entry.
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Flight support
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Hotel & travel
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