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The airport is the fifth-busiest airport in India by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, and fourth busiest by cargo handled in India and international traffic. [3] [4] [5] In the financial year 2023–24, the airport handled over 21 million passengers and 0.34 million tonnes of cargo.
Airport name Category Ownership Status Chennai: Tirusulam: VOMM MAA Chennai International Airport [1] International [note 1] AAI [2] Operational Chennai: Parandur [3] [note 2] [note 2] Chennai Greenfield International Airport: International TIDCO and AAI [citation needed] Proposed Coimbatore: Peelamedu: VOCB CJB Coimbatore International Airport ...
Chennai International Airport is one of the busiest in India. The aviation history of Chennai began in 1910, when Giacomo D'Angelis built the first powered flight in Asia and tested it in Island Grounds. [311] In 1915, Tata Air Mail started an airmail service between Karachi and Madras marking the beginning of civil aviation in India. [312]
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Area served – Town or city where the airport is located; IATA – The three letter airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association [2] ICAO – The four letter airport code assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization. [3] ICAO codes for India start with: VAXX: West Zone - Mumbai Center; VEXX: East Zone ...
A baggage tag for a flight heading to Oral Ak Zhol Airport, whose IATA airport code is "URA". An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [1]
[2] [3] As the new airport was delayed due to land acquisition problems, [2] [4] an expansion plan was unveiled to expand the existing Chennai International Airport in 2018 to increase the terminal area to 160,000 m 2 (1,700,000 sq ft) with a capacity of 35 million passengers. [5] The existing airport is expected to reach saturation by 2035. [6]
AAI's implementation of the Automatic Dependence Surveillance System (ADSS) at Kolkata and Chennai Air Traffic Control Centers, made India the first country to use this technology in the Southeast Asian region thus enabling Air Traffic Control over oceanic areas using satellite mode of communication.