Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU), historically known as Dum Dum Airport, is the principal aviation gateway to eastern India and India's fifth-busiest passenger airport. Named for the independence leader born in nearby Cuttack, CCU handles more than 21 million passengers annually and serves a catchment of over 100 million people across West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, the Northeast and neighboring Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar. Operated by the Airports Authority of India, it is one of the oldest civil airports in Asia, with continuous commercial service since 1924. The airport occupies roughly 680 ha (1,680 acres) in Dum Dum, about 17 km (11 mi) north-northeast of central Kolkata, at an elevation of 16 ft (5 m). Two parallel asphalt runways operate in near-simultaneous mode: the primary 01R/19L measures 11,919 ft (3,633 m) and the secondary 01L/19R is 9,291 ft (2,832 m). The integrated Terminal 2, opened in 2013 and regularly extended, spans approximately 230,000 m² and handles both domestic and international traffic under a single roof with 128 check-in counters, 78 immigration desks and 18 contact stands; current master-plan work is pushing design capacity from 26 to 40 million passengers. Twenty-seven airlines connect CCU to 68 nonstop destinations including Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Paro, Yangon, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, as well as dense domestic networks flown by IndiGo, Air India, Vistara, SpiceJet and Akasa. CCU's historical role as the eastern terminus of the Imperial Airways Karachi–Kolkata route and its current position as the key feeder into India's Northeast keep it strategically significant far beyond its raw passenger count (2025).