Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport - Airport Structure

Airport Structure

The airport has three terminals: a domestic terminal, an international terminal and a cargo terminal spread over an area of 4,500 acres (1,800 ha). The domestic terminal was extended in 2009 to cater to an increasing demand of passengers. New ticketing counters, check-in kiosks and cafes were added. The airport has four aerobridges, with three in the domestic terminal and one in the international terminal. The current terminals have reached over-capacity, as there has been a huge increase in the number of passengers travelling through the airport. It is expected that the airport will handle additional four million passengers every year from 2012, up from the 1.01 million now it handles. Passenger lounges are provided by Air India and Jet Airways. Catering facilities are owned by Taj-Sats and Oberoi Flight Services.

The airport has two parallel runways 01/19 L/R, of which the longer one, 01R/19L is used for takeoffs and landings, while the other one is used mostly as a taxiway and for aircraft landing during daytime. The expansion of this runway is hampered by a 119-year old mosque that lies 30 metres north of the runway, within the airport property. Air India operates hangars at the airport, while Bharat Petroleum and Indian Oil act as fuellers.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has recently added cargo-handling capacity to the airport, which is sufficient to cater to the demand up to 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 was built with a 6.75 crore (US$1.23 million) grant-in-aid from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) part of the Commerce Ministry. The volume of export was 21,683 ton in 2008-09, during the current fiscal more than 23,042 ton of cargo were handled by the NSCBI authorities. Similarly the volume of import cargo was increased from 16,863 ton to 18,733 ton recording more than ten per cent jump 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.

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