Swami Vivekananda International Airport

Swami Vivekananda International Airport (IATA: RPR, ICAO: VARP) formerly known as Mana Airport is located 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. In 2006, this Airport witnessed an 82% increase in passenger traffic (the highest in the country for that year). The Airport is one of the 35 non-metro airports presently being modernised by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

the airport is named after this great personality named Swami Vivekananda.
On 24 January 2012, The Union cabinet of India approved the State government's proposal for renaming Raipur airport after India's greatest son and well known saint Swami Vivekananda who spent 2 years of his teenage in Raipur.[1] It is currently served by Air India, Jet Airways, Jetlite and IndiGo while Kingfisher Airlines suspended its operations in Nov 2011 due to its bad financial condition. There are also non-scheduled services by Air Odisha[2] to Bhubaneswar and Air Taxi services by Chhattisgarh Air Link which flies from here to other cities of Chhattisgarh.

A new integrated terminal covering an area of 10,500 m2 (2.6 acres) has been constructed by a joint venture of Era Infra Engineering and KMB from Ukraine at a cost of INR136 crore (US$21 million).[4] It was inaugurated on 7 November 2012 by President Pranab Mukherjee.The new terminal has 2 aero-bridges, 20 check-in counters, 2 x-ray luggage machines, 3 security check points and 3 conveyor belts for luggage. The terminal also has a provision on 15 immigration counters for prospective international flights.

The international terminal is upgraded and starting international operations , connecting the city to South-East Asia and the Middle East.The new terminal will be used for domestic flights, while the international terminal is renovated to handle international operations. Currently four international carriers have shown interest to start operations to Bangkok, Dubai, Qatar,New York,Sedney and Singapore once the airport is ready to start international operations.

The airfield is equipped with night landing facilities and a CAT- 1 Instrument Landing System (ILS) as well as Navigational facilities like DVOR, DME, and an NDB.