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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport

International airport in Kolkata, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ388535 ↗
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (IATA: CCU, ICAO: VECC) is the international airport serving the city of Kolkata and the Kolkata metropolitan area, the capital metropolis of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the primary aviation hub for eastern and northeastern India. It is located in Dum Dum and in proximity to Jessore Road, approximately 16 km (9.9 mi) from Dalhousie Square and Howrah Junction via the Howrah Bridge. The airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in 1995 after Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement. The airport's IATA code CCU is associated with "Calcutta", the city's name until 2001. Opened in 1924, the airport is one of the oldest airports in India.

Spread over an area of 6.64 square kilometres (2.56 sq mi), the airport is the largest hub for air traffic in the eastern part of the country and one of the four operational airports in the state, the others being Bagdogra Airport in Siliguri, Cooch Behar Airport in Cooch Behar and Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport in Durgapur. The airport handled around 22 million passengers in the financial year 2024–25, making it the sixth-busiest airport in India in terms of passenger traffic, after Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai airports. The airport is also a major centre for flights to northeast India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Southeast Asia and the Middle Eastern cities of Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi.

History

Early history

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport was founded in the early 1900s as the Calcutta Aerodrome.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport” as international airport in Kolkata, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Netaji, Subhas and Chandra.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2001, 1924, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Netaji, Subhas and Chandra providing the first useful test.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q388535. Authority coordinates are 22.654, 88.447. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2001, 1924 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.