Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport
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| IATA: CCU – ICAO: VECC | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Kolkata Airport | ||
| Serves | Kolkata, India | ||
| Location | Dum Dum, West Bengal | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 23 ft / 7 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 01L/19R | 7,872 | 2,400 | Asphalt |
| 01R/19L | 11,900 | 3,627 | Asphalt |
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC) is an airport located in Dum Dum, near Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The civil airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honour of Subhas Chandra Bose.
It has two parallel runways 01/19 L/R, of which the longer one, 01R/19L is used for takeoffs and landings, while the other one is used mostly as a taxiway.
It is located approximately 17 km (11 mi) from the city centre. The airport has three terminals: a domestic terminal (opened in the early 1990s), an international terminal (the oldest terminal) and a cargo terminal. The airport was given a major facelift in the recent past.
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[edit] Passenger traffic
- 1993 -> 2,294,000
- 1994 -> 2,364,000
- 1995 -> 2,565,000
- 1996 -> 2,577,000
- 1997 -> 2,513,000
- 1998 -> 2,521,000
- 1999 -> 2,599,000
- 2000 -> 2,686,000
- 2001 -> 2,761,000
- 2002 -> 2,827,000
- 2003 -> 3,001,529
- 2004 -> 3,489,426
- 2005 -> 4,101,228
- 2006 -> 5,458,125
- 2007 -> 5,993,058
[edit] Cargo Traffic(in tonnes)
*2006- 67000 *2007- 84000
[edit] History
Kolkata airport has a distinguished place in the history of world aviation in general and the history of Indian aviation in particular. The following are some key milestones.
- 1924: KLM begins scheduled stops at Calcutta (Kolkata), as part of their Amsterdam to Batavia (now Jakarta) flight.
- 1924: Five United States Air Force planes touch down at Calcutta as part of the first round-the-world flight expedition by any air force in the world.
- 1929: Bengal Air Transport Company Limited starts Calcutta to Siliguri flights. This predates the more widely known "first Indian flight" by Tata Air Lines on the Karachi - Ahmedabad - Bombay (now Mumbai) flight by two years.
- 1930: Air Orient begins scheduled stops at Calcutta, as part of their Paris to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) flight.
- 1931: Imperial Airways' experimental flight from London to Australia lands in Calcutta.
- 1933: Imperial Airways introduces regular London - Calcutta service (extended progressively to Rangoon (Yangon) and Singapore).
- 1934: China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, begins flights on the Shanghai - Hong Kong - Chungking (now Chongqing) - Calcutta route, as a connection to the San Francisco - Shanghai Clipper route.
- 1937: Amelia Earhart arrives in Calcutta on June 17, as part of her round the world flight. Less than a month later she disappears in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1939: Deutsche Lufthansa begins scheduled stops at Calcutta, as part of their Berlin to Bangkok service.
- 1942: China National Aviation Corporation moves its headquarters to Calcutta. Calcutta remains operational hub of the airline until the end of the Second World War.
- 1947: Pan American World Airways launches round-the-world service with the slogan "New York to San Francisco via Calcutta".
- 1952: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) introduces first jet service to India connecting London and Calcutta, using the de Havilland Comet.
- 1953: BOAC de Havilland Comet jetliner crashes after takeoff from Calcutta airport. This crash is the first of many that will lead to the discovery of the phenomenon of metal fatigue, and will usher in the demise of British jet aviation supremacy.
- 1963: Japan Airlines (JAL) connects India with Japan as part of the Silk Route service. This is the second Indian destination, after Delhi which was added in the same year.
- 1964: Indian Airlines introduces first domestic jet service in India using the Caravelle jets on the Calcutta - Delhi route.
- 1975: India's first dedicated cargo terminal opens at Dum Dum airport.
- 1981: Drukair, Bhutan's national airline established with operations/maintenance headquarters in Calcutta airport.
- 2006: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is connected to the Kolkata Suburban Railway system, becoming the first airport in India to be accessible by mass rapid transport system.
[edit] Modernisation
The airport is now being provided with a face-lift by the Airports Authority of India, which is currently building a fourth terminal for the airport, due to massive increase in passenger volume during the past three to four years. The modernisation plan also include the lengthening of the runways. The airport is also linked by the suburban railway system. It is among the top five airports in the country, handling about 270 flights a day.
The increase in air traffic has forced the government to plan a second airport for the city. The Chief Minister of West Bengal is considering using the services of specialised private firms to carry out the task. Some of the important upcoming infrastructure at Kolkata Airport will be an Integrated Passenger Terminal Building at an area measuring more than 180 thousand Sq.mt. with 104 Check-in counters, 22 immigration counters for Arrival and 22 for Departure, 25 Security Gates - 9 for international and 16 for domestic passengers, 5 conveyer belts and 15 Aerobridges.
The consultants appointed for the modernization of Kolkata Airport are: M/s. Sikka Architect and Associates with consortium partner RMJM (Hong Kong) and Virendra Khanna and Associates with consortium partners ADPI (Paris).
At present the Kolkata Airport has a passenger handling capacity of 0.73 million international passengers annually and 4.7 million domestic passengers annually which is likely to saturate by year 2008-09 and 2006-07 respectively. AAI has recently added cargo-handling capacity to the Airport, which is sufficient to cater to the demand up to 2015-16. In 2006-07 there were 65,687 aircraft movements of which 9,414 were international and 56,273 domestic. The passenger traffic in 2006-07 was 5,993,058 of which 805,191 were international (registering a growth of 12%) and 5187,867 was domestic (registering a growth of 20%). In 2007-08 the total passenger handled was about 7.5 millions.
In view of these facts, the decision has been taken to develop a modern Integrated Passenger Terminal Building to handle 20 million passengers, which will be sufficient to meet the demand up to 2015-16. Work is already in progress for 9 domestic bays. Three cargo bays and 11 additional parking bays will be constructed along with the new Integrated Terminal Building. Automation will be introduced in the CNS/ATM operation and a new control tower will be built.
The Project of modernizing the Kolkata Airport envisages an investment of Rs. 2000 crore. The Government has taken a decision that Kolkata airport would be modernised on the lines of public – private partnership (PPP) model.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
[edit] Domestic
- Air India (Mumbai)
- Air India Express (Mumbai)
- Air India Regional (Agartala, Aizwal, Dimapur, Guwahati, Jorhat, Shillong, Silchar)
- Indian Airlines (Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaya, Guwahati, Imphal, Jaipur, Mumbai, Port Blair, Silchar)
- IndiGo Airlines (Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune)
- Jet Airways (Agartala, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jorhat, Mumbai, Pune)
- Jet Lite (Bangalore, Delhi, Guwahati, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Port Blair, Visakhapatnam)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Raipur)
- Air Deccan (Aizwal, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Chennai, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Jorhat, Lilabari, Patna, Port Blair, Ranchi, Silchar, Visakhapatnam)
- MDLR Airlines (Chandigarh, Delhi, Ranchi)
- SpiceJet (Bagdogra, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Port Blair)
[edit] International
- Air India (Chicago,London-Heathrow)
- Air India Express (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dhaka, Singapore)
- Indian Airlines (Kathmandu, Yangon)
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- China Eastern Airlines (Kunming)
- Cosmic Air (Kathmandu)
- Drukair (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Paro)
- Emirates Airline (Dubai)
- GMG Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain, Muscat)
- Jet Airways (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Dhaka)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
- United Airways (Bangladesh) (Dhaka) (Starting September 24THth)
[edit] Cargo
- Blue Dart Aviation
- Etihad Crystal Cargo
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
- Air India Cargo
- Alitalia cargo (Milan-Malpensa)
- Emirates Skycargo
[edit] Future airlines
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) [Planned for early 2009] [1]
- Kingfisher Red ( Dhaka, Yangon)
[edit] References
Gulf Air
Indian Airlins Jetlet
[edit] External links
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport at Airports Authority of India web site
- Airport information for VECC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
- Accident history for CCU at Aviation Safety Network
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