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 Bengal-born Indian patriot Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Its airport code is CCU and 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.