Jagdalpur Airport guide

Maa Danteswari Airport is a domestic airport serving Jagdalpur, the main city of the Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh, India. It is also called Jagdalpur Airport. The site began as a basic airstrip in 1939, and it sits about 3 km from the city centre. It was renamed on 21 September 2020, after the Danteshwari temple at Dantewada, the same day scheduled flights began under the UDAN regional connectivity scheme.

The airfield was upgraded to 3C category in 2019, which allows 72-seat ATR-72 aircraft to land. A single asphalt runway, 06/24, is 1,707 m (5,600 ft) long. The terminal is a compact single-storey building with four check-in counters, a departure hall and one arrival gate. The Government of Chhattisgarh owns the airport, which covers about 132 acres.

Alliance Air flies to Bilaspur, Delhi and Jabalpur, and IndiGo flies to Hyderabad and Raipur. Raipur is roughly 300 km away by road, so the flights replace a journey of six to seven hours. Between April 2025 and March 2026 the airport handled 64,679 passengers and 1,342 aircraft movements, down 13 and 16 percent on the year before.