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Airport information for Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport Country: India Location: Kolkata Coordinates: 22.39.00N / 088.27.00E IATA Code: CCU Timezone: GMT +5.3 Direct flights form Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport Direct flights to Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport Find connecting flights to Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport Find connecting flights from Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport

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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (Kolkata Airport) (IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC) is an airport turn up in Dum Dum, near Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The airport was earlier known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honor of Subhas Chandra Bose. It is turn up about 17 kilometre (11 mi) from the town center.

The airport is the biggest in eastern India and 1 of only 2 functioning in West Bengal, the other being at Bagdogra. It is a leading center for all voyages to North-East India and Bangladesh.

Airport building

The start out of the drive in to the airport, detach Jessore RoadDomestic entrance 1An Air India A320 at the domestic depot

The airport has 3 depots: a domestic depot (opened in the early 1990s), an international depot (the oldest depot) and a freight depot. It was given a major cosmetic surgery in the recent past. It has 2 parallel landing track 01/19 L/R, of which the longer 1, 01R/19L is used for takeoffs and landings, while the other 1 is used largely as a taxi strip and for aircraft districting during day. The enlargement of this landing track is strangled by a 119-year old mosque that lies 100 human foot northward of the landing track, within the airport belonging.

The airport is linked to the Kolkata Suburban Railway system, and is also accessible by cab and coach.

Modernisation

The airport is currently being supplied with a face-lift by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which is now construction a 4th depot for the airport, due to massive increase in rider volume during the past 3 to 4 yr. The modernization program also includes the continuing of the landing track. The airport is also connected by the suburban railway line. It is amongst the top 10 airports in the land, deal approximately 310 voyages a solar day.

The increase in air traffic has pressured the authority to program a 2nd airport for the town. The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, is considering using the services of specialized private companies to execute the labor.

The being domestic depot construction will elongate to be used with appropriate alterations and façade intervention.

AAI has late added cargo-handling capacity to the airport, which is sufficient to supply to the claim up to 2015-16. In 2006-07 there were 65,687 aircraft movements of which 9,414 were international and 56,273 domestic. There has been a 25 per cent growing in international freight motion to and from Kolkata airport and a 15 per cent increase in outward theodolite. Automobile divisions accounted for the majority of the development in the motion of freight from the town to other lands. International freight motion to and from Kolkata airport has increased by around 25 per cent in the past yr, inciting foreign air hose to add more merchant ship on sure paths. In November 2008 the 1st Centre for Perishable Cargo (CPC) in West Bengal was opened at the airport. The CPC has an area  of 742.5 m^two (7,992 sq foot) and an one-year storage capacity of 12,000 million t. The CPC had been undergoing tests that begin in June 2008 and was made with a Rs.67.5 million grant-in-aid from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) division of the Commerce Ministry.

Work on a secondary landing track extension, rapid outlet taxi strip and parkland embayments are in advancement. The secondary landing track has already been continued by 400 m (1,300 foot) on the southern side. The secondary landing track is being suited with CAT-I installations for nighttime use. The primary landing track is being upgraded from CAT-I to CAT-II ILS installation to assist aircraft districting under poor visibleness. The work on the new incorporated depot set about in November 2008. The new incorporated depot shall be an L-shaped building with two-tiers for arrivals and going. The 40,000 m^two (430,000 sq foot) of the 1st stage of modernization is projected to adapt a extremum flowing of 1,800 riders per 60 minute.

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