Beas Airport

Beas Airport
Beas Airport
	IATA: none; ICAO: VIBS[1];
Summary
Airport type	Private
Owner	Radha Soami
Serves	Amritsar
Location	Beas
Elevation AMSL	820 ft / 250 m
Coordinates	31°33′38″N 75°20′28″E
Map
	VIBS Location of airport in India VIBS VIBS (India)
Runways

Beas Airport is a civil aerodrome located in Amritsar, Punjab in India.[3] The airport is the main base of private jets of Radha Soami and used exclusively for their personal travel. As of now, the airport does not serve any scheduled flight operations. The nearest airport to Beas Airport is Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, the primary airport serving Amritsar.[4]

Area

The Airport is spread over an 497,214 m² and perimeter length of 6043 metre.[5]

Future Plans

There are plans to start scheduled flight operations from the airport in future. Ministry of Civil Aviation has identified Beas airport under its UDAN-Regional Connectivity Scheme. The airlines would be permitted to run short flights of less than 1 hour on these routes and the fare has been capped at Rs. 2500, in order to promote regional connectivity scheme.[6]

Satellite Airport

Due to the fast pace of growing aviation industry in India, it is projected that over 31 cities will need 2nd airport by 2040. Beas Airport can act as a 'satellite airport' or 'second airport' serving Amritsar after SGRDJ-Amritsar International Airport.[7]

References

"VIBS - Beas Airport Airport | SkyVector". skyvector.com.
"Data". jetsetgo.in.
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"AvDelphi - Almost there..." avdelphi.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
Sura, Ajay (30 March 2017). "25 airstrips in Punjab, Haryana in ministry's regional connectivity scheme | Chandigarh News". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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[1] "VIBS - Beas Airport Airport | SkyVector". skyvector.com.

[2] "Data". jetsetgo.in.

[3] "Beas Airport (VIBS)". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[4] "VIBS - Beas Airport Airport | SkyVector". skyvector.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[5] "AvDelphi - Almost there..." avdelphi.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[6] Sura, Ajay (30 March 2017). "25 airstrips in Punjab, Haryana in ministry's regional connectivity scheme | Chandigarh News". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[7] "India News, India News Live and Breaking News Today". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 10 January 2021.