In 2007, the Government of Puducherry decided to expand the airport to accommodate larger aircraft and commissioned a new terminal building.

[5] After a gap of three years, the airport was operationalised again under the UDAN scheme in August 2017, with daily flights to Hyderabad and Bangalore.

[6] On 18 August 2024, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a Coast Guard Air Enclave (CGAE) at the airport.

[8][10] The following year, the airport once again was brought back into operation when Alliance Air commenced flights from Bangalore on 14 April 2015, subsidised by the Pondicherry Government.

[11] In October 2016, the Pondicherry government signed a Tripartite MoU with the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and AAI in New Delhi to operationalise the airport under the Regional Connectivity Scheme.