Swami Vivekananda Airport
Swami Vivekananda Airport, formerly known as Mana Airport, is a domestic airport serving the Raipur Metropolitan Region in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The airport is located at Mana, about south-east of Raipur and east of Naya Raipur. On 24 January 2012, the airport was renamed after Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda, who spent his youth in Raipur between 1877 and 1879. Between April 2024 and March 2025, it handled around 2.6 million passengers, and is the busiest airport by passenger traffic in the state, and the second-busiest in Central India after Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport in Indore.
Infrastructure
The airport is spread over an area of. It has a single runway measuring in length and in width. The runway was extended by, which was operationalised on 8 August 2024. It is equipped with night landing facilities and a CAT II Instrument landing system, and other navigational aids such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast. The apron has eleven parking bays which can accommodate narrow body aircraft. The airport is equipped with category VI firefighting and rescue capability with provisions for category VII on demand.Terminals
A new integrated passenger terminal was inaugurated on 7 November 2012. Built at a cost of about, the building covers an area of, and can handle 1300 passengers simultaneously, including 400 international passengers. The terminal has three jet bridges, eight boarding gates, twenty check-in counters, eight X-ray baggage machines, four security counters, and two conveyor belts for luggage.Following the opening of the new passenger terminal, the old passenger terminal was converted to handle cargo operations. The domestic cargo terminal was inaugurated on 4 June 2016, which enabled to start air cargo operations at the airport.