Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

Being one of the four metropolitan cities of the country Kolkata serves its visitors to some of the best Air travel with its well organized and well facilitated airport. The Kolkata airport is known as the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport which is affiliated to the IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC. The airport is located near in Dum Dum and is 17 kilometers away from the centre of the city. The airport is brilliantly connected to the various parts of the city making it an easy through fare for the passengers. The administration is taking special care for the connectivity of the airport to the different parts of the city as Kolkata is projected to be the major hub for different industries which means the arrivals of the VIPs in the city.

The airport was originally known as Dum Dum airport which was later changed to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport keeping in mind the local sentiments and honoring one of Bengal’s as well as India’s favorite son. The airport has two parallel runways, one being the 1-19 L/R and the other being the 1R/19L which is mostly used for takeoffs and landings.

The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport was one of the busiest airports in Asia but with the changing time it has lost a touch of its glamour; though a recent facelift have helped in restoring the pride of the airport. There are three different terminals of the airport: an international terminal, a domestic terminal and a terminal for cargo.

The airport serves a huge number of populations in traveling to different domestic and international destination. An official count measured around 2.827 million people used the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport.

The different Airlines that operates from the airport are

Domestic Airlines

  -  Air Deccan
  -  Air India (Dhaka, London-Heathrow)
  -  Air Sahara
  -  Alliance Air
  -  Indian Airlines
  -  IndiGo Airlines
  -  Jet Airways
  -  Kingfisher Airlines
  -  Spice Jet

International Airways

  -  Biman Bangladesh Airlines
  -  British Airways (London-Heathrow)
  -  Cosmic Air (Kathmandu)
  -  Druk Air (Bangkok, Paro)
  -  Emirates (Dubai)
  -  GMG Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka)
  -  Gulf Air (Muscat, Bahrain)
  -  Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
  -  Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
  -  Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
  -  Tiger Airways (Singapore, from 2007)