Meghauli Airport | |
Iata: | MEY |
Icao: | VNMG |
Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Nepal |
Pushpin Label: | Meghauli Airport |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Government of Nepal |
Operator: | Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal |
City-Served: | Bharatpur, Nepal Chitwan National Park |
Elevation-F: | 600 |
Elevation-M: | 183 |
Coordinates: | 27.5772°N 84.2289°W |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 08/26 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,085 |
R1-Length-F: | 3,560 |
R1-Surface: | Grass |
Footnotes: | Source:[1] |
Meghauli Airport is a domestic airport located in Meghauli, Bharatpur serving Chitwan National Park in Bagmati Province in Nepal. The airport is the older of two airports in Bharatpur, the other one being Bharatpur Airport.[2]
The airfield was built in 1961, when Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Chitwan.[3] In 1982, the first Elephant polo world cup was played on the airfield.[4] After being closed for several years, the airport reopened in 2016 for charter operations and from 2017 to 2020, Nepal Airlines carried out scheduled operations again.[5] [6] In 2024, upgradation works started turning the grass runway into an asphalt one.[7]
The airport resides at an elevation of 600feet above mean sea level. It has one runway which is 1085m (3,560feet) in length.
As of 2022, there are no scheduled services to and from Meghauli Airport.[2] Previously Nepal Airlines operated routes to Kathmandu.[8]