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Will accommodate over 10 million passengers

The city airport has started work on the Rs.50 billion Kolkata airport expansion project. A new 10 million passengers per annum capacity integrated terminal for domestic and international passengers will be constructed within the next six years. The work is expe...

The city airport has started work on the Rs.50 billion Kolkata airport expansion project. A new 10 million passengers per annum capacity integrated terminal for domestic and international passengers will be constructed within the next six years. The work is expected to begin next August. A new air traffic services (ATS) facility has already been constructed but it is yet to be equipped to begin operations. Passenger growth projections indicate that the capacity of the existing terminal will get saturated by 2030-31 despite the interim modular expansion of the current terminal that is underway to increase its capacity from 26 to 28 million per year.

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