Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport

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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC) is an international airport serving Kolkata and the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. It is the primary aviation hub for eastern and northeastern India. It is located approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the city centre. The airport is locally known as Kolkata Airport and Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in 1995 after Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement, from Bengal. The airport's IATA code CCU is associated with "Calcutta", the former legal name of the city. Opened in 1924, Kolkata Airport is one of the oldest airports in India.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport
IATA: CCU ICAO: VECC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Airports Authority of India
Serves	Kolkata Metropolitan Area
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Opened	1924; 99 years ago (1924)
Hub for	Alliance Air IndiGo
Focus city for	Air India AIX Connect SpiceJet
Built	Early 1900s as the Calcutta Aerodrome
Elevation AMSL	5 m / 16 ft
Coordinates	22°39′17″N 088°26′48″E / 22.65472°N 88.44667°E / 22.65472; 88.44667
Website	Kolkata Airport
Map
CCU Show map of Kolkata CCU Show map of West Bengal CCU Show map of India CCU Show map of Asia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01L/19R 3,300 11,055 Asphalt 01R/19L 3,860 12,208 Asphalt
Statistics (April 2022 - March 2023)
Passengers 17,768,862 ( 61%) Aircraft movements 137,298 ( 37.5%) Cargo tonnage 136,022 ( 1.5%)
Source: AAI^[1]^[2]^[3]

Spread over an area of 6.64 square kilometres (2.56 sq mi), Kolkata Airport is the largest hub for air traffic in the eastern part of the country and one of two international airports operating in West Bengal, the other being Bagdogra in Siliguri. The airport handled around 18 million passengers in the financial year 2022–23, making it the sixth-busiest airport in India in terms of passenger traffic, after Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai airports.^[4] The airport is a major centre for flights to Northeast India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Southeast Asia and the Middle Eastern cities of Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi. It is situated across Jessore Road in Dum Dum Region.

History

 

Subhas Chandra Bose at the airport in 1938

Early history

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport was founded in the early 1900s as the Calcutta Aerodrome.^[5] The airport traditionally served as a strategic stopover on the air route from North America and Europe to Indochina and Australia.^[6] Dakota 3 was the first aircraft to land in the airport.^[7] In 1924, KLM began scheduled stops at Calcutta, as part of their Amsterdam to Batavia (Jakarta) route.^[8][9][10] The same year, a Royal Air Force aircraft landed in Calcutta as part of the first round-the-world expedition by any air force.^[11][12][13]

The airport began as an open ground next to the Royal Artillery Armoury in Dum Dum.^{[13][14][15][16]} Sir Stanley Jackson, Governor of Bengal, opened the Bengal Flying Club at Dum Dum/Calcutta aerodrome in February 1929.^[17] In 1930, the airfield was made fit for use throughout the year,^[18] and other airlines began to utilise the airport. Air Orient began scheduled stops as part of a Paris to Saigon route^[19] and Imperial Airways began flights from London to Australia via Calcutta in 1933, thus drew many airlines to Calcutta Airport.^[10][20][21] Many pioneering flights passed through the airport, including Amelia Earhart's in 1937.^[22][23][24]

Calcutta played an important role in the Second World War. In 1942, the United States Army Air Forces 7th Bombardment Group flew B-24 Liberator bombers from the airport on combat missions over Burma. The airfield was used as a cargo aerial port for the Air Transport Command and was also used as a communication centre for the Tenth Air Force.^[25][13]

Post-independence

 

Nepal Airlines at Dum Dum Airport in 1974

 

Scandinavian Airlines is one of the many European airlines that used to operate to Kolkata at one point. Seen here is their inaugural flight to Kolkata

Passenger services grew after the Second World War. Calcutta became a destination for the world's first jet-powered passenger aircraft, the de Havilland Comet, on a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) route to London.^[12][26][27] Furthermore, in 1964 Indian Airlines introduced the first Indian domestic jet service, using Caravelle jets on the Calcutta–Delhi route.^[28] Between the 1940s and 1960s, the airport was served by several major airlines including Aeroflot,^[29] Air France,^[30] Alitalia,^[31] Cathay Pacific,^[32] Japan Airlines,^[33] Philippine Airlines,^[34] KLM,^[35] Lufthansa,^[36] Pan Am,^[37] Qantas,^[38] Swissair,^[35] and SAS.^[39]

Due to the introduction of longer-haul aircraft and the poor political climate of Calcutta during the 1960s, several airlines discontinued their service to the airport. The 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War saw a large increase of both refugees and disease in Calcutta, causing more airlines to cease services to the city. In 1975, the airport opened the first dedicated cargo terminal in India.^[40]

The 1990s saw new growth for Calcutta Airport, as the Indian aviation industry saw the arrival of new airlines such as Jet Airways and Air Sahara. A new domestic terminal named Terminal 2 was opened in 1995 making the international one Terminal 1, and the airport was renamed in honour of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. In 2000, a new international arrival hall was opened.^[7][41]

Modernisation

 

Check-in area of the integrated terminal

 

Departure hall of the integrated terminal

 

Exterior of the new integrated terminal

2005 saw the growth of low-cost carriers in the Indian aviation sector, with new airlines including SpiceJet, IndiGo, and Kingfisher Airlines. This led to a dramatic rise in passenger numbers at the airport. Overcrowding in both terminals led to the implementation of a comprehensive modernisation plan for the airport.^[42][43][44]

 

Panoramic view of the departures area of Terminal 2 at NSCBIA, Kolkata (2023)

Work included an expansion of runway 01L/19R, rapid-exit taxiways and parking bays. The runway was extended by 400 metres (0.25 mi) (2790 metres to 3190 metres) on the northern side and 1,000 feet (300 m) on the southern side and was fitted with CAT-I facilities for night use. A 119-year-old mosque that lies 30 metres from the runway' northern end prohibits further expansion in this direction.^[45] The longer runway, 01R/19L, was upgraded from CAT-I to CAT-II ILS status to allow landings in poor visibility. In August 2014, it was announced that the instrument landing system of the primary runway would be upgraded to CAT-IIIb. This allows flights to operate till visibility drops below 50 metres. The secondary runway would be upgraded to CAT-II. The ₹120 crore (equivalent to ₹141 crore or US$18 million in 2023) upgrading work started in February 2015^[46][47] and was completed in January 2018.^[48]

The modernisation plan included some improvements of the airport's existing terminals, including the addition of extra ticketing counters, check-in kiosks, and cafes to the domestic terminal in 2009. However, the need to replace the airport's terminals entirely led to plans for a new integrated terminal, known as T2 to differentiate it from the older domestic block, to serve both international and domestic destinations. A Thai-based company, the Italian-Thai Development (ITD) Corporation (ITD-ITDCem JV, a consortium of ITD and ITD Cementation) and the 125-year-old iconic Project Management Consultant–Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) was hired with Delhi-based designer Sikka Associates to construct the building. Construction commenced in November 2008, and T2 was inaugurated on 20 January 2013 after overshooting the previous deadlines of July 2011 and August 2012.^[49][50] The former airport hotel 'Ashok' was demolished to give way for two new five-star luxury hotels and a shopping mall in its place.^[41][51]

Commercial operations were intended to start on 23 January 2013, the 116th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.^[52] However, the shift to the new terminal was only completed on 16 March 2013.^[53] Airports Council International named it the best improved airport in the Asia-Pacific region in 2014 and 2015.^{[54][55][56][57]}

Infrastructure

Runways

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport has two parallel runways, the primary runway 01R/19L has a capacity of approximately 35 flights per hour and the secondary runway 01L/19R has a capacity of 15 flights per hour. The secondary runway is usually used as a taxiway when the main runway is used. When the primary runway is shut down for maintenance purposes, the secondary runway is used.^[58][59]

Runways at NSCBI Airport

Runway Number	Length	Width	Approach Lights/ILS
01L/19R	3,300 m (10,800 ft)	46 m (151 ft)	CAT I / CAT II
01R/19L	3,860 m (12,660 ft)	46 m (151 ft)	CAT III-B / CAT II

Hangars and ground services

Air India operates hangars at the airport, while Bharat Petroleum and Indian Oil act as fuellers. Catering facilities are owned by Taj-Sats and Oberoi Flight Services.^[60][61]

Terminals

 

The ceiling of the new integrated terminal is adorned with works of Rabindranath Tagore^[62]

The airport's new integrated terminal T2 is spread over 233,000 m² (2,510,000 sq ft) and can handle 25 million passengers annually, compared to the previous terminals' capacity of five million. The terminal is an L-shaped structure, containing six levels. It contains 128 check-in counters that utilise CUTE (Common User Terminal Equipment) technology and has 78 immigration counters and twelve customs counters.^[63] Passenger lounges are provided by Air India. The terminal is equipped with 18 aerobridges and a further 57 remote parking bays. There are plans to construct an 18-foot bronze statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the integrated terminal complex.^[64][65]

Kolkata's old international and domestic terminals closed permanently when the integrated terminal opened. However, the old international terminal may be used for future hajj services and is currently under renovation, and the domestic terminal may be used by regional airlines. An earlier proposal of continuing low-cost carrier operations from the existing domestic terminal has been shelved due to the need to fully utilise the new integrated terminal's capacity, making it the first airport in India to shift even its low-cost domestic airlines to the new integrated building upon completion.^[53][66][67]

In the financial year from April 2011 to March 2012, Kolkata Airport served 10.3 million passengers, 85% which were travelling domestically.^[68] The withdrawal of Lufthansa's service to Frankfurt in March 2012 left Kolkata with no direct connections beyond Asia.^[69] However, other international operations increased in 2012.^[68] The new terminal has attracted some airlines to expand their route networks to include Kolkata.^[70][71]

In September 2012, the Airports Authority of India upgraded the airport's cargo-handling capacity, enabling it to cater for the demand until 2015–16. There has been a 25 per cent growth in international cargo movement to and from Kolkata Airport and a 15 per cent increase in outward transit. Automobile parts accounted for the bulk of the growth in the movement of cargo from the city to other countries. In November 2008 the first Centre for Perishable Cargo (CPC) in West Bengal was opened at the airport. The CPC has an area of 742.5 m² (7,992 sq ft) and an annual storage capacity of 12,000 million tonnes. The CPC had been undergoing trials that started in June 2008 and were built with a ₹6.75 crore (equivalent to ₹7.9 crore or US$990,000 in 2023) grant-in-aid from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) part of the Commerce Ministry.^[72] The volume of export was 21,683 tonnes in 2008–09, during the current fiscal more than 23,042 tonnes of cargo were handled by the airport. Similarly, the volume of import cargo increased from 16,863 tonnes to 18,733 tonnes, increasing over ten per cent during the same period. However, in 2008–09 the total volume of cargo handled by the airport declined by 4.8% from the previous year. On 3 June 2019, Singapore Airlines operated the Airport's first Airbus A350 service from Singapore to Kolkata, enhancing the weekly seat capacity.^[73]

Expansion

 

Airside

 

ATC complex of NSBIA. A new 51.4m tall control tower is currently under construction.

 

Bird's eye view of the integrated terminal

 

Airside of NSCBIA, Kolkata at night

The construction of the new terminal, as well as runway expansion, marked the end of Phase I of the project. AAI officials have announced that they are prepared to execute Phase 2 of the Kolkata Airport expansion plan. This involves the construction of a new ATC Tower to provide controllers with a better view of the planes at the new terminal. The building will be accompanied by a 4-storey office complex.^[74][75] Initially, a 112-meter tower was proposed, but the height has been revised multiple times and in 2017 it was decreased to 51.4 meter.^[76] The under construction tower is expected to be complete by late 2023.^[77]

New expansion plan

The new terminal T2 inaugurated in 2013 is on the verge of reaching its annual capacity of 24 million passengers four years ahead of the initial projections. To tackle this, AAI has planned to upgrade and expand the airport and increase its passenger capacity by 100% to handle up to 40 million passengers annually. The new ₹1,000 crore expansion plan will be carried out in 2 phases. The number of parking bays will be increased to 105 by 2024.^[78][79][80]

Phase 1

Airport officials said as per the first phase of the expansion plan, the old domestic terminal will be demolished and a 7000 sq. m. new building will be constructed in the area. The building will be linked with the existing terminal of the airport with the help of walkalators and would also have walk-in gates on the ground floor. This building will be used only for boarding and de-boarding of passengers. Passengers arriving in the boarding building would take the connecting bridge to the terminal and then leave the airport. This would reduce peak-hour congestion when several flights do not get enough apron space. This would immediately increase the passenger capacity by a few million and would solve the space crunch for the time being. The phase 1 expansion plan has been sanctioned by AAI.^[79][81]

Phase 2

A master plan has been made for the construction of a third terminal that will increase the airport's passenger capacity to 45 million. The plan has received the first nod from the aviation ministry. The new terminal T1 will come up north of the current integrated terminal. The Air Traffic Navigation Building and the old international terminal that are situated beyond the old domestic terminal (which will become a passenger boarding building), will be demolished to make way for the new terminal T1, which is expected to house only domestic flights while the existing integrated terminal T2 will be allotted only to international flights. The construction of new hangars and bays is also part of the current expansion plan.^[81][79]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia	Abu Dhabi^[82]
AirAsia	Kuala Lumpur–International^[83]
Air India	Agartala, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, ^[84] Chennai, Delhi, Dhaka, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Guwahati, Imphal, Kathmandu, Mumbai, Port Blair, Silchar
AIX Connect^[85]	Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Goa–Dabolim (begins 29 October 2023), Hyderabad, Kochi, Pune, Surat^[86]
Alliance Air^[87]	Aizawl, Bhubaneswar, Dimapur (ends 28 October 2023), Guwahati, Imphal, Jharsuguda, Lilabari, Pasighat, Rourkela, Shillong, Silchar, Tezpur
Akasa Air^[88]	Bangalore, Guwahati, Mumbai
Batik Air Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur–International^[89]
Bhutan Airlines^[90]	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,^[91] Paro
Biman Bangladesh Airlines^[92]	Dhaka
Drukair^[93]	Paro
Emirates^[94]^[95]	Dubai–International
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi^[96]
FlyBig^[97]	Guwahati, Patna,^[98] Rupsi
flydubai^[99]	Dubai–International
IndiaOne Air	Cooch Behar,^[100] Jamshedpur^[101]
IndiGo^[102]	Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,^[103] Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore (resumes 29 October 2023), Darbhanga, Delhi, Deoghar,^[104] Dhaka, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaya, Goa–Dabolim, Goa–Mopa,^[105] Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hanoi,^[106] Ho Chi Minh City,^[106] Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar,^[107] Jaipur, Jharsuguda (begins 6 November 2023),^[108] Jorhat, Kochi, Lucknow, Mangalore (ends 28 October 2023), Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Silchar, Singapore, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram (ends 28 October 2023), Varanasi, Visakhapatnam Seasonal: Dehradun, Jodhpur,^[109] Udaipur
Myanmar Airways International^[110]	Yangon
Novoair^[111]	Dhaka
Qatar Airways^[112]	Doha
Singapore Airlines	Singapore^[113]
SpiceJet^[114]^[115]	Ahmedabad, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Delhi, Goa–Mopa, Guwahati, Gwalior (ends 28 October 2023), Hyderabad, Jaipur (resumes 29 October 2023), Mumbai, Port Blair, Shillong, Tezpur
Thai AirAsia	Bangkok–Don Mueang^[83]
Thai Airways International	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi^[116]
US-Bangla Airlines^[117]	Chittagong,^[118] Dhaka
Vistara^[119]	Delhi, Mumbai, Port Blair

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Blue Dart Aviation	Delhi, Guwahati^[120]^[121]
IndiGo CarGo	Delhi, Hanoi, Yangon
My Indo Airlines	Yangon
Qatar Airways Cargo^[122]	Doha, Macau (both resume 4 November 2023)
SpiceXpress	Delhi, Chennai, Kathmandu, Mumbai, Nanning, Yangon
World Cargo Airlines	Yangon

Statistics

As of the financial year 2019–20, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport was again the fifth-busiest airport in India in terms of the total number of passengers served and with respect to the number of flights departing and arriving at the airport, which was about 22 million and 430 flights a day respectively. This was a 0.6% increase from the previous year. Out of which, 19 million passengers were domestic travellers and 3 million were international travellers.^[123] The cargo traffic saw a decline of 1.1% from its previous year, with 153,468 metric tonnes of cargo.^[124]

Annual passenger traffic at CCU airport. See Wikidata query.

Passenger and Cargo Traffic (2009–2022)

Year	Passengers			Change	Cargo (MT)	Change	Ref
	International	Domestic	Total
2009–10	11,87,160	68,58,564	80,45,724		1,10,256		^[125]^[126]
2010–11	14,28,086	82,03,586	96,31,672	19.7%	1,29,957	17.9%	^[125]^[126]
2011–12	15,66,102	87,37,889	1,03,03,991	7.0%	1,25,593	3.4%	^[127]^[128]
2012–13	16,44,339	84,24,316	1,00,68,655	2.3%	1,23,491	1.7%	^[129]^[130]
2013–14	17,65,013	83,35,219	1,01,00,232	0.7%	1,29,782	6.2%	^[131]^[132]
2014–15	19,26,562	89,90,107	1,09,16,669	8.1%	1,36,699	5.3%	^[133]^[134]
2015–16	22,17,473	1,02,03,771	1,24,21,244	13.8%	1,39,679	2.2%	^[135]^[136]
2016–17	22,30,071	1,35,89,468	1,58,19,539	24.0%	1,52, 415	9.0%	^[137]^[138]
2017–18	25,86,775	1,73,05,749	1,98,92,524	25.7%	1,63,323	7.2%	^[139]^[140]
2018–19	27,86,805	1,90,90,545	2,18,77,350	10.0%	1,55,232	5.0%	^[141]^[142]
2019–20	29,39,322	1,90,76,069	2,20,15,391	0.6%	1,53,468	1.1%	^[123]^[124]
2020–21	1,43,081	75,85,825	77,28,906	64.9%	1,04,953	31.6%	^[143]^[144]
2021–22	3,42,665	1,06,93,443	1,10,36,108	42.8%	1,38,127	31.6%	^[143]^[144]

Ground transport

Roads

 

The West Bengal Transport Corporation operates air conditioned buses to the airport.

The airport has a well-established facility of prepaid taxis and air-conditioned buses connecting it to the city centre. As part of the larger modernisation programme, a flyover at Nagerbazar and an entry ramp on VIP Road have also been constructed. A 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) flyover from Kestopur to Raghunathpur (near Tegharia) was built to speed up airport-bound traffic. These reduced journey times to the airport.^[145][146] Parking facilities at the new terminal include two underground parking levels accommodating 3000 cars, as well as an outdoor car parking which can handle an additional 2000 cars.^{[147][148][149]}

West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) operates air conditioned buses to major parts of Kolkata from 08:00 to 21:00 throughout the week.^[150]

Metro

Two new Kolkata Metro lines are under construction which will connect to the airport: one from Noapara (Yellow Line), and the other from New Garia (Orange Line).^[151] Both lines will converge at the Biman Bandar metro station. An American aviation planning firm has drafted a plan for a futuristic multi-modal transport hub at Kolkata Airport modelled on similar projects in European airports.^[152]

Rail

The airport was connected to the Kolkata Suburban Railway system's circular line branch. The 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long elevated track connected the airport Biman Bandar railway station with Dum Dum Cantonment railway station, passing Jessore Road. Electric multiple unit rolling stocks served the line. However, due to poor patronage and plans to replace it with metro service, the railway line was closed in September 2016 to facilitate construction of the new lines.^[153][154] The remaining infrastructure was dismantled in early 2020 to make space for road upgrades.^[155]

Presently, the nearest two rail stations are Durganagar railway station and Dum Dum Cantonment railway station.

Awards

In 2014 and 2015, the airport won the title of Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific region awarded by the Airport Council International. The airport was awarded the Best Airport by Hygiene Measures in the Asia-Pacific in 2020 by Airports Council International.^[156]

Accidents and incidents

On 2 May 1953, BOAC Flight 783 de Havilland Comet bound for Delhi crashed after takeoff from Calcutta Airport with the loss of 43 lives. Parts of the aircraft were found spread over an area of eight square miles, near Jugalgari, a village some 25 miles north-west of Calcutta, suggesting disintegration before impact with the ground.^[157]

On 12 June 1968, a Pan-Am Flight (N798PA, named Clipper Caribbean) Boeing 707-321C struck a tree 1128m short of the runway during a night-time visual approach in rain. The aircraft subsequently crashed and caught fire. The fuselage remained largely intact, although the aircraft's landing gear broke off. Out of the 10 crew and 53 passengers aboard, 1 crew member and 5 passengers suffered fatal injuries due to the fire.^[158][159]

On 22 December 2015, a Jet Airways bus slammed into the side of an Air India Regional ATR 42-500 aircraft. There were no fatalities. An investigation revealed that the driver was sleeping.^[160][161]

See also

• Behala Airport
• Airports in India
• List of airports in West Bengal
• List of busiest airports in India by passenger traffic

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External links

  Media related to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• AAI NSCBIA website
• Accident history for CCU at Aviation Safety Network