VNSVEBN

Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport

Varanasi, India · Asia

Asia Asia/Calcutta

17direct destinations

7airlines

1runway

2,745 mLongest runway

Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport (IATA: VNS, ICAO: VEBN) is an international airport serving Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located at Babatpur, 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Varanasi. Formerly known as Varanasi Airport, it was officially renamed after Lal Bahadur Shastri, the 2nd Prime Minister of India, in October 2005. It acquired its position in India's major airports after more than 4 million passengers used the airport in 2024-25. It is the 19th-busiest airport in India in terms of passenger movement, and the second-busiest airport in Uttar Pradesh. The airport was awarded as the best airport in Asia-Pacific in 2020 (2 to 5 million passengers per annum) by Airports Council International. It is the first airport in India to make announcements in Sanskrit language.

Location

25.452°N, 82.863°E · 81 m s. n. m. (266 ft)

General data

CountryIndia

CityVaranasi

IATA codeVNS

ICAO codeVEBN

Coordinates25.452°N, 82.863°E

Elevation81 m s. n. m. (266 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Calcutta

Runways1

Longest runway2,745 m

OperatorDirección de Aeropuertos de la India

Direct destinations17

Official website

Runways · 1

09/27

Length2,745 m9,006 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 3

Tower

118.100

Approach

119.000VIBN APP

Area control (center)

132.400120.750 MHz

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 7

Other airlines with direct routes

IndiGo Air India Express SpiceJet Akasa Air Air India Alliance Air Buddha Air

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: kevin tsai · CC BY-SA 2.0 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VNS

MLA

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Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_vns,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VNS},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VNS}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-23},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}

Wikipedia

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