 The airport has one runway numbered 8/26 which is .Extension work on the runway has been taken up and the current runway will be extended to .On 15 November 1993, Indian Airlines Flight 440 (IC-440), an Airbus 300B2 (registered VT-EDV), operating on a scheduled flight from Madras (now Chennai) to Hyderabad, crashed into the paddy fields near Tirupati Airport.