RAS question
Ratanada Airport is associated with which city?
Correct answer: (D) Jodhpur.
Ratanada Airport is associated with Jodhpur, where Jodhpur Airport operates at Air Force Station, Ratanada.
Explanation
Ratanada points to Jodhpur because the official AAI eAIP supplement lists the aerodrome as Jodhpur Airport and gives the aerodrome operator address as Air Force Station, Ratanada, Jodhpur. Jodhpur Airport at Ratanada serves both civil and military purposes. It is a joint-user airfield for defence and civil operations, which makes the location more than a routine city-airport pairing and also an important defence airbase. Therefore, the city associated with Ratanada Airport is Jodhpur.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Jaipur is wrong because its airport is Sanganer Airport, while Ratanada is at Jodhpur.
- (B) Udaipur is wrong because it is associated with Dabok Airport, not the Ratanada/Jodhpur airfield.
- (C) Kota is wrong because Ratanada Airport is identified with Jodhpur, not Kota.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan transport geography, especially the city-airport associations that recur in RAS map-based and one-line factual questions. Ratanada is also asked because Jodhpur Airport has both civil and defence significance.