Jharsuguda Airport guide

Veer Surendra Sai Airport, also called Jharsuguda Airport, is a domestic airport in Durlaga village, about 5 km north-east of Jharsuguda city centre and 8.5 km from Jharsuguda Junction railway station. It is named after Veer Surendra Sai, the 19th-century Odisha freedom fighter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated it on 22 September 2018 under the UDAN regional connectivity scheme.

The airport has one concrete runway, 06/24, about 2,391 m long. Its single terminal covers 5,500 square metres and is built in modules for 150 arriving and 150 departing passengers at a time, with room to expand.

IndiGo flies to Bengaluru, Delhi and Kolkata, and Star Air flies to Bhubaneswar. In April 2025 to March 2026 the airport handled 442,601 passengers and 4,566 aircraft movements, rises of 41.2% and 43.9% on the year before. Its catchment covers western Odisha, including Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Sundergarh and Bargarh districts, and the Chhattisgarh districts of Raigarh, Korba, Surguja and Jashpur.