Sonari Airport (IATA: IXW, ICAO: VEJS) is a public airport located in Jamshedpur, in the state of Jharkhand, India. The airport has unscheduled chartered flights from Kolkata.
The aerodrome, which is spread over 25 acres, first opened in 1940.[1] There are no scheduled flights into this airport, however in the past years, the airport was served by airlines like Jet Airways,Kingfisher Red, Kingfisher Airlines, MDLR Airlines and Deccan Charters that discontinued services due to various reasons despite recording good loads. While MDLR and Deccan Charters ceased operations due to internal issues, Air Deccan and Kingfisher had to discontinue services in November 2009 after load restrictions were imposed due to the short length of the runway. Since Air Deccan and Kingfisher operated larger ATR 42 and ATR 72 aircraft respectively, operations became unviable.  Jet Airways has discontinued its services to Kolkata and Patna due to commercial unavailability and Jet Airways has also terminated its service to Jharkhand’s only other airport Birsa Munda Airport.