Gondia Airport guide

Gondia Airport, also called Birsi Airport, sits at Zilmili near Birsi village in Gondia district, Maharashtra. The British built the field in 1940 as an air force base. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) runs it today, after the state-owned MIDC operated it from August 1998 to December 2005.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 04/22, with a parallel taxiway of about 1,697 metres and an apron of 100 by 150 metres. Navigation aids include an NDB, DVOR, DME and ILS. A single small terminal building handles passengers.

Scheduled flying has been thin. FlyBig began flights under the UDAN regional scheme in March 2022 and suspended them in August 2022. IndiGo resumed service on 1 December 2023, and Star Air started Indore flights in September 2025. Between April 2025 and March 2026 the airport handled 33,661 passengers and 862 aircraft movements.

The airport also hosts the National Flying Training Institute, run as CAE Global Academy Gondia, a joint venture between AAI and CAE Inc. that received DGCA approval in February 2009. The nearest larger airports are Nagpur, about 125 km away, and Raipur, about 163 km away.