Orchha by Air

In order to reach Orchha by air tourists can fly down to any of the leading Indian cities in the vicinity and take a bus or drive down through the scenic beauty of the bucolic locales to the quaint and sleepy little town of Orchha. This provides an answer to the seemingly tricky question on how to reach Orchha by air.

The army airport at Jhansi, situated at a distance of 16 km from Orchha, is the nearest airport. However, the airport authorities do not generally permit civil flights to land in its premises. Another airport in the propinquity is the Gwalior Airport, located 120 km away. An important domestic airport of Central India, the leading airline and flight operators that have scheduled flights to and from the city of Gwalior include Indian Airlines, Air Sahara and Jet Airways. Several cheap flight operators like Air Deccan and Alliance Air also operate from Gwalior. Gwalior is connected by air with the cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Indore, Bhopal, Khajuraho, Jaipur, Jabalpur and Varanasi.

Another important Madhya Pradesh airport, sited at a distance of 178 km from Orchha is the Khajuraho airport. The airport that is expanded into an international airport that will charter flights to Singapore, Bangkok and the Middle East enables travel to Orchha. Currently, the airport has flights belonging to Indian Airlines, Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways and Air Sahara that are scheduled to fly to the cities of New Delhi, Bhopal, Mumbai, Indore, Allahabad, Agra and Varanasi.