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Cochin Airport is also known as Cochin International Airport, Kochi International Airport or Nedumbassery Airport. Nedumbassery, is a town near Kochi in India. The airport is built in traditional architectural style of Kerala and is owned by Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL). This is the first international airport in India to be built with only a minority, that is 13 per cent, Central Government stake in a public-private partnership (PPP) project. The total government stake, state and central combined only to 26 per cent. The Cochin Airport is located about 30 km from the central city area of Kochi.Its location near tourist areas and the availability of undeveloped land near the location provides opportunity for growth of this region. This has helped to make it the busiest airport in Kerala.
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The runway of Cochin Airport is about 3,400-metre long.With a runway, the airport is equipped to operate any type of aircraft currently in commercial service. At present this is the fourth busiest airport in India in terms of international traffic. There are 464 services in the domestic sector and 314 services in the international sector in Kochi per week. Besides Mumbai and Delhi Kochi is currently one of the few Indian airports, which is capable of handling the Airbus 380. Construction of a new international terminal area with duty free shops has been completed recently. Cochin International Airport has direct non-stop international flights to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Colombo, Dammam, Bandar Abbas, Doha, Kuwait, Dubai, Muscat, Sarah, and Singapore. It is also linked with Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Mumbai, Agatti, Coimbatore, Thiruvanathapuram, Hyderabad and Bangalore by domestic flights.
Given below is a whole list of flights operating from Cochin Airport and their destinations:
- Air India Express (Calicut, Goa, Mangalore, Mumbai, Thiruvanathapuram)
- Air Deccan (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Thiruvanathapuram)
- Air India (Chennai, Mumbai, Thiruvanathapuram)
- Jet Lite (Delhi, Hyderabad, Thiruvanathapuram)
- Jet Airways (Chennai, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai)
- Indian Airlines (Calicut, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Mumbai)
- IndiGo Airlines (Bangalore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad)
- Go Air (Mumbai, Delhi)
- Paramount Airways (Chennai)
- Kingfisher Airlines (Bangalore, Calicut, Chennai, Goa, Mangalore, Mumbai, Thiruvanathapuram)
- Spice Jet (Bangalore, Delhi)
Cochin receives numerous tourists throughout the year. The Cochin International Airport is one of the busiest airports in Southern India. Throughout the year the airport serves as a major transportation hub among the international as well as the domestic tourists. Services at the airport include car hire desks, lounge, coffee shop, snacks bar, magazine stall, wash rooms and rest rooms. If you are new to the city you may gather all the required information about the city from the tourists’ information centre at the Cochin Airport.
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