Bus Branding in Old Airport Road

Old Airport Road is a major arterial corridor in East Bengaluru, running about 17 km from the Trinity and Victoria Road end past the old HAL Airport toward Marathahalli and Varthur. It took its present name after the airport shifted to Devanahalli, and it remains a key high accessibility link between the central city and the Whitefield tech belt. The corridor is lined with hospitals, premium hotels, the HAL campus, apartment complexes, and offices. This page lays out what sits along Old Airport Road, which routes run it, where the busiest stops are, and who the buses reach.

Old Airport Road at a Glance

Type
Central to east arterial corridor
Length
~17 km, Trinity to Marathahalli
Anchors
Hospitals, hotels, HAL campus
Role
Link to the Whitefield belt
  • Old Airport Road, officially Madivala Machideva Road, runs from the Trinity Church Road and Victoria Road junction to the HAL Airport, Marathahalli, and onward to Varthur, about 17 km in all.
  • It was renamed after the city's airport moved to Devanahalli, but stays one of the most significant east side roads for its accessibility toward Whitefield.
  • It carries a heavy concentration of hospitals, premium hotels, the HAL campus, the ISRO satellite centre, and apartment and office complexes, and is known as one of the busier traffic stretches in the city.

Areas & Landmarks Along Old Airport Road

The corridor strings hospitals, hotels, and the HAL campus along its length, with offices and apartments between them. Buses running the full road pass all of these in one stretch, which is what makes the corridor itself the high-visibility asset.

CategoryAlong Old Airport Road
Hospitals & healthManipal Hospital, the Command Hospital Air Force, and the medical clusters along the road
Hotels & hospitalityThe Leela Palace, Sterlings MAC Hotel, and the premium hotels along the corridor
HAL & institutionalThe HAL Airport campus and main gate, the ISRO satellite centre, and the cantonment land
Residential & retailThe Diamond District apartments, the Total Mall, Nilgiris supermarket, and the apartment and office complexes
Roads & junctionsThe Trinity and Domlur end, Kodihalli, Murugeshpalya, the HAL main gate, and the Marathahalli Bridge end
Onward corridorsThe link to Marathahalli and the ORR one way, and MG Road and the central business district the other

Bus Routes That Run Along Old Airport Road

The corridor has its own route family, the 320 to 339 series running from MG Road to HAL and Kadugodi, with the airport services and cross routes joining it. The routes below are the high-frequency ones. Numbers and exact stops are simple to verify on Google Maps or BMTC route search by entering a from-and-to point along Old Airport Road.

Route number(s)ConnectsKey Old Airport Road points covered
320 to 339 seriesMG Road to HAL, Marathahalli, and KadugodiThe full corridor, Domlur, Manipal Hospital, HAL, to Marathahalli
333 seriesCity to ITPL via Old Airport Road and MarathahalliThe HAL, Marathahalli, and Kundalahalli stops
334 seriesIndiranagar and the corridor to ITPL via WhitefieldThe Diamond District, Manipal, HAL, and Marathahalli stops
KIAS-6 airport serviceMarathahalli and the corridor to Kempegowda International AirportThe HAL main gate, Manipal Hospital, and Domlur stops toward the airport
BIAS and ITPL company routesThe corridor to ITPL via MarathahalliThe Mayo Hall, Domlur, Diamond District, and HAL stops
201 seriesThe corridor and HAL side to Koramangala and DomlurThe HAL and Old Airport Road facing stops
  • The 320 to 339 family is the spine, running the full road from MG Road to HAL, so a single branded bus crosses the hospitals, the hotels, the HAL campus, and the offices in one trip.
  • Old Airport Road is known as one of the city's busier traffic stretches, so buses spend long minutes in slow traffic, which lengthens the time the branding stays visible.

Route numbers and coverage compiled from public BMTC route listings and map-based route search for the Old Airport Road corridor; services and frequencies are revised by BMTC from time to time.

Major Bus Stops on Old Airport Road

Stops run the length of the road, clustering at the hospitals, the hotels, and the HAL gates. These are the busiest, where patient, office, and through footfall meet, so a branded bus halting here gets long viewing windows from a waiting crowd.

Bus stopWhat sits around it
DomlurThe western end stop near the Inner Ring Road and Embassy Golf Links
Diamond DistrictAn apartment and office stop near the hotels
Manipal HospitalThe hospital stop opposite the Leela Palace, with very high footfall
KodihalliA commercial and residential stop on the corridor
MurugeshpalyaA dense residential and PG stop near HAL
HAL Main GateThe HAL campus gate stop with shift footfall
Konena AgraharaA residential stop toward the HAL side
New TippasandraA residential stop off the corridor
Marathahalli BridgeThe eastern end junction stop toward the ORR

Footfall & Bus Commuters on Old Airport Road

Main public transport
BMTC along the corridor
Corridor length
~17 km of frontage
Footfall drivers
Hospitals, hotels, HAL, offices
BMTC daily tickets, citywide
30 lakh+
  • Old Airport Road's audience is varied for a single road — hospital patients and visitors, hotel and hospitality guests, the HAL and ISRO workforce, office workers, and the residents of the apartment complexes.
  • The hospitals and hotels keep footfall high through the day and beyond office hours, with Manipal and the Leela stretch busy almost continuously.
  • It has no metro running on the corridor itself, with the nearest links at Indiranagar and the central stations, so BMTC buses and the airport services carry the bulk of the public commute here.
  • A separate bus ridership figure for Old Airport Road is not published, but for scale BMTC sells more than 30 lakh tickets a day across the city, and this corridor is one of the busiest east side arterials.

Who Sees the Buses on Old Airport Road

AudienceWhere they are on Old Airport Road
Hospital patients and visitorsAt Manipal Hospital, the Command Hospital, and the medical clusters
Hotel and hospitality guestsAt the Leela Palace, Sterlings MAC, and the corridor hotels
HAL and ISRO workforceAt the HAL campus and the ISRO satellite centre
Office and apartment residentsAt the Diamond District and the office and apartment complexes
Through commutersTravelling between the central city and Marathahalli and Whitefield
Service and gig workersAlong the corridor, with heavy reliance on BMTC for daily travel

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