Milestones of Kannur International Airport Limited

The Kannur International Airport Limited, which is currently under construction at Mattanur in 

Kannur District, is around 25 kilometres from the cities Kannur and Thalassery.

Milestones of Kannur International Airport Limited - KIAL

• 1996 - The KIAL airport project was initiated, when C. M. Ibrahim was the Minister of Civil Aviation and Information & Broadcasting Minister.
• 1997 - Starting with the proposal of a greenfield airport at Kannur, Communist ministry lead by E.K. Nayanar pursued the project.
• 1998 - Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA) was appointed as a nodal agency for the implementation of the project in January.
• 2005 - The KINFRA started the feasibility studies, which then submitted to the Government of India.
• 2008 - Approval of the proposal for the development was received from the Ministry of Civil Aviation in February.
• 2009 - "Kannur International Airport Limited - (KIAL)" company was founded in December.
• 2010 - The foundation stone was laid on 17 December.
• 2012 - The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) submitted a detailed project report in May.
• 2013 - Aecom Asia company modified the master plan in August.
• 2013 - L&T was chosen to construct the runway, passenger terminal buildings and ATC building in November.
• 2013 - The construction work started in November.
• 2015 - Airport Authority & the district administration organised a trial landing on 31 December(Postponed due to heavy rain).
• 2016 - DGCA clearances obtained on February.
• 2016 - The trial landing was done on the project site as a public function on 29 February.
• 2017 - KIAL received International Air Transport Association (IATA) code now.(IATA: CNN, ICAO: VOKN)
• KIAL has already received the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) four-letter code - VOKN.
• 2018 Dec 09 - KIAL Getting inaugurated

Cab Facility at Kannur International Airport
The government has called for a tender to start cab service from various aggregators.

Terminal Details of Kannur International Airport
The terminal mapping are in progress.

Facilities at KIAL
As in other airports , Kannur airport has almost all facilities. Aviation fuel services, Cargo facilities are the main ones.

Airlines and destinations
Below companies has shown interest in KIAL operations.

• Air India, Air India Express
• Go Air
• Air Arabia
• Qatar Airways
• Air Asia India
• Ethihad Airways
• Jet Airways
• Silk Air
• Gulf Air
• Oman Air
• Spice Jet
• Emirates
• Fly Dubai
• Indigo

Cargo Services
The following cargo airlines shown interest to fly

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