Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport

ICAO VECC22.6540°N 88.4476°E5 m / 16 ftLarge airport

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC) is a large airport in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It opened on 21 Dec 1924. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,633 m (11,919 ft). It is operated by Airports Authority of India.

Timeline

2 events · 1924–1953

21 DEC 1924

OpenedNetaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport opens.

02 MAY 1953

DisasterBOAC Flight 783.43 killed

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

01R/19L006° / 186° · LIT

LENGTH3,633 m11,919 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

01L/19R006° / 186° · LIT

LENGTH2,832 m9,291 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

71 destinations · 12 countries

Year-round67

Seasonal charter1

MEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · flyadeal4,945 km3,073 mi

Cargo9

DACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · IndiGo239 km149 mi GAULokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation498 km309 mi DELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,313 km816 mi KMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · IndiGo1,497 km930 mi BOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Blue Dart Aviation1,666 km1,035 mi SGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · IndiGo2,339 km1,453 mi EHUEzhou Huahu International AirportChina · IndiGo2,773 km1,723 mi HGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · YTO Cargo Airlines3,282 km2,039 mi DOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways3,743 km2,326 mi

Most destinationsIndiGo 55Air India Express 11Alliance Air 8Akasa Air 7SpiceJet 5Blue Dart Aviation 3

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CCU. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway3,633 m11,919 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#366of 29,823 · #107 Asia · #12 IN Elevation5 m16 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,667of 43,341 · =2,988 Asia · =288 IN AgeOpened 19242026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=231of 15,079 · =12 Asia · #2 IN Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =30 Asia · =2 IN

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

11 channels

ACCKOLKATA CON119.300

APPKOLKATA APP127.900

ATISATIS126.400

GNDKOLKATA GND121.900

TWRKOLKATA TWR118.100

RADARFeeder AREA-APP127.300

APP CONTROLKOLKATA CONTROL132.450

ACCKolkata Radar132.350

OceanicKolkata Control132.450

ACCKolkata Radar133.750

ACCKolkata Radar120.575