The Hassan Airport project, located about 190 km from Bengaluru, has faced delays for over six decades. Land acquisition started in 1966, but actual construction work only began in 2021. Since then, progress has been very slow. During the December 2023 assembly session in Belagavi, Infrastructure Development Minister M.B. Patil said the project would finish by 2024-25. He noted ₹164.47 crore was released for the project, which costs ₹193.65 crore. However, in a December 12, 2025 reply to a question by MLA H.D. Revanna, Patil reported that ₹193.6 crore had been released and ₹169.73 crore spent—only about ₹5 crore spent in the last two years. The airport idea dates back to the 1960s when the Central Public Works Department prepared the first plan in 1960. Land was acquired in 1966 and 1971 but the project delayed for decades. In 2007, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda laid the foundation stone when the project partnered with Jupiter Aviation Services under a build-own-operate-transfer model. The agreement was later canceled in 2018 after the JD(S)-Congress government took power again. B.S. Yediyurappa announced ₹175 crore funding in 2021, with KSIIDC managing the project. Contractor Ibrahim Sharief began construction on the runway, terminal, and control tower, but no completion date has been given. The Hassan Airport remains a slow-moving project despite repeated promises and funding.