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The city of Bhubaneshwar has a domestic airport named after Bijayananda Patnaik, the former Chief Minister of Orissa. It is known as the 'Biju Patnaik Airport.' This airport is located around three km away from the center of city, towards the southern part of the city. The airport has facilities like restaurant and snack bar to serve its customers. Biju Patnaik Airport is also referred to as the Bhubaneshwar airport.
The Bhubaneshwar airport is the only major airport in the state of Orissa, and it is well connected to other major cities of India such as Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam and Chennai. Indian Airlines, Alliance Air, Sahara Airlines and Kingfisher Airlines are the major airline companies which operate their flights to/from Bhubaneshwar at the Biju Patnaik airport of Bhubaneshwar.
Indian Airlines and its subsidiary Alliance Air operate the flights to/from Bhubaneshwar. These airlines connect Bhubaneshwar city to several other cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Varanasi, Chennai, Raipur and Vishakhapatnam.
Sahara Airlines operate the flights to/from Bhubaneshwar on the Bhubaneshwar-Delhi route, the Bhubaneshwar-Kolkata route and the Bhubaneshwar-Hyderabad route. Kingfisher Airlines operate flights to Hyderabad and Delhi from Bhubaneshwar, once a day.
Air Deccan operates daily flights to/from Bhubaneshwar, connecting the Bhubaneshwar airport to the cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. Indigo operates flights from Bhubaneshwar to Hyderabad, Delhi and Bangalore cities and vice versa.
The Biju Patnaik airport is the only domestic airport in Bhubaneshwar, while Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport and Visakhapatnam Airport are the other near airports from Bhubaneshwar.
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