Back কণ্ণুর আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর Bengali/Bangla Flughafen Kannur German Aeropuerto Internacional de Kannur Spanish فرودگاه بینالمللی کانور Persian Aéroport international de Cannanore French कन्नूर हवाईअड्डा Hindi カンヌール国際空港 Japanese കണ്ണൂർ അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം Malayalam ਕਨੂਰ ਅੰਤਰਰਾਸ਼ਟਰੀ ਹਵਾਈ ਅੱਡਾ Punjabi Aeroportul Internațional Kannur Romanian
Kannur International Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL) | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kannur | ||||||||||
| Location | Mattanur, Kannur district, Kerala, India | ||||||||||
| Opened | 9 December 2018[1] | ||||||||||
| Hub for | Air India Express | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 76 m / 249 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 11°55′N 75°33′E / 11.92°N 75.55°E | ||||||||||
| Website | kannurairport | ||||||||||
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Kannur International Airport (IATA: CNN, ICAO: VOKN) is an international airport serving the city of Kannur and the North Malabar region of Kerala, Kodagu district of Karnataka and Mahé district of Puducherry in India. It is located 28 km (17 mi) east of Kannur, and 24 km (15 mi) east of Thalassery, near the municipality of Mattannur in Thalassery taluka of Kannur district. It is owned and operated by Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL), a public–private consortium. The airport opened for commercial operations on 9 December 2018.[5]
The airport served one million passengers in just nine months since commercial operations began.[6][7] Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the airport could maintain stable growth, and it achieved the milestone of two million passengers in the twenty-third month of operations in November 2020.[8]
The first aircraft to land was an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft that touched down at the airport on 29 February 2016.[9] The first trial passenger flight operation was conducted on 20 September 2018, using a Boeing 737-800 aircraft from Air India Express.[10][11] On the inaugural day, 9 December 2018, an Air India Express flight IX 715 (Boeing 737-800) took off to Abu Dhabi at 10:13 (IST), becoming the first commercial passenger aircraft to depart from Kannur International Airport.[12][5][13][14] The airport was inaugurated by then Minister of Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu and Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan.
- ^ "'Come..let's fly from Kannur': Kerala's fourth international airport to open on Dec 9". 8 October 2018.
- ^ "Annexure III – Passenger Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Annexure II – Aircraft Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Annexure IV – Freight Movement Data" (PDF). aai.aero. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Kannur airport inauguration". OnManorama. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ "Kannur airport has served one million passengers in nine months". The News Minute. 11 September 2019.
- ^ "Kannur airport records 10 lakh passengers with 15-yr-old Singapore girl | Kozhikode News - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "Two million Passengers at Kannur International Airport | kannurairport". kannurairport.aero.
- ^ "Kerala gets its 4th international airport at Kannur: 10-point cheat-sheet". www.timesnownews.com.
- ^ "Watch: First trial passenger flight lands at new Kannur International Airport". The News Minute. 20 September 2018.
- ^ Nazeer, Mohamed (20 September 2018). "Trial landing at Kannur airport" – via www.thehindu.com.
- ^ "Kannur International Airport inauguration LIVE: First flight flagged off, operations commenced". The Indian Express. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ "First flight from Kannur airport flagged off". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
- ^ "IX715 - Air India Express IX 715 Flight Tracker". FlightStats. Retrieved 9 December 2018.