[5] Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the upgraded airport on 9 February 2019.

With an aim to ensure low cost of operation, the airport was to have no conveyor belts, no aerobridges and only the security hold area for departing passengers was likely to be air-conditioned.

[10] On 9 February 2019, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the upgraded airport.

[6] Soon after the opening of the upgraded airport, the Ministry of Civil Aviation announced that a new, bigger passenger terminal, a new Air Traffic Control (ATC)-cum-fire station complex, apron and runway extension would be done in a span of four years, as part of the airport's future development and the government's UDAN Scheme, also owing to the growing traffic and tourist arrivals in the state.

Currently an Alliance Air dornier aircraft is operating between TEZU and Hollongi on Tuesday & Thursday only.

An Alliance Air ATR-76 is connecting Tezu with Guwahati, Jorhat & Imphal on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.