Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is an airport located in Dum Dum, West Bengal, India, near Kolkata (Calcutta). The civil airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honour of the Bengali Indian patriot Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
It has two parallel runways 1-19 L/R, of which the longer one, 1R/19L is used for takeoffs and landings, while the other one is used mostly as a taxiway.
It is located approximately 17 km from the city centre. The airport was, at one point of time one of the busiest in Asia. Today it is a small airport providing domestic as well as a few international connections. The airport has three terminals: a domestic terminal (opened in the early 1990s), an international terminal (the oldest terminal) and a cargo terminal.
Recently the airport has been given a facelift, making it one of the better airports in the country.
Airlines
- Air India (Dhaka, London, Mumbai)
- Air Sahara (Allahabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jorhat, Mumbai, Patna)
- Alliance Air (Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bhubaneswar, Dimapur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Nagpur, Shillong, Silchar, Tezpur)
- Air Deccan (Agartala, Aizwal, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Dibrugarh, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Silchar)
- Indian Airlines (Agartala, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bangkok, Chennai, Delhi, Dhaka, Dibrugarh, Gaya, Guwahati, Kathmandu, Mumbai, Port Blair, Yangon)
- Biman Bangladesh (Chittagong, Dhaka)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Cosmic Air (Kathmandu)
- Druk Air (Bangkok, Paro)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- GMG Airlines(Chittagong, Dhaka)
- Gulf Air (Muscat, Bahrain)
- Jet Airways (Agartala, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jorhat, Mumbai, Pune)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Bangalore, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Mumbai)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt - eff. winter '06)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Spice Jet (Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
The following have discontinued operations to Calcutta: KLM, SAS, JAL, Panam, Qantas, Aeroflot, Tarom, Royal Brunei, Royal Jordanian, JAT Airways, Jetstar Asia, Qatar Airways, Malaysian Airlines, ModiLuft, East-West, Damania, Vayudoot.
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