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Surat Airport is a domestic airport (IATA: STV, ICAO: VASU), located in Magdalla, 11 kilometres south-west of Surat in the Western Indian state of Gujarat. The airport, with a total area of 312 hectares, currently caters to scheduled airline services as well as private aircraft and is also home to a flying training school. ==History== Surat Airport is built by the State government of Gujarat. During the 1990s, Vayudoot and Gujarat Airways had been operating through Surat Airport and both discontinued their flights since May 1994 and January 2000, respectively. The airport, with a 1400-metre airstrip and an adjoining 60 by 40 metre apron was then transferred to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) in 2003, who took up the airport for modernisation. After a failed initial attempt in July 2004 to connect Surat with Mumbai and Bhavnagar due to poor airport infrastructure. the now defunct airline Air Deccan operated an ATR 42 aircraft daily from November 2004 to July 2005. Surat remained the only city in the world with a population of over 4.6 million people without a functioning airport until commercial services resumed on 6 May 2007 with an Indian Airlines Airbus 319 flight to Delhi flagged off by Indian Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel at 1240 IST. By this time, major improvements had been made to the Airport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Surat Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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